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Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Thursday, 12 October 2006, in the House of Lords.

Armed Forces Bill

Armed Forces Bill. Lords Committee stage third day. Clause 162 agreed to as amended, clause 163 agreed to. Clause 164 negatived. Clauses 165-280 agreed to, clauses 184,185,192,194,245,246, as amended. Clause 281 negatived. Clauses 282-378 agreed to, clauses 332,348,358,359,366,367 and 375 as amended. Schedules 3-17 agreed to, schedules 9,13,16 and 17 as amended. New clauses considered. Bill reported with amendments. (HL Bill 152 2005-06)

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
685 c363-95, 410-62 
Session
2005-06
Department
Ministry of Defence
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Procedure
New clauses
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House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Garden | 685 c434-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for reading out the annexe to his letter to me of 9 October. It saves ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c433-4 (Link to this contribution) We fully acknowledge our duty of care to all service personnel and the importance of understanding a...
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Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon | 685 c429-30 (Link to this contribution) Like the noble Lord, Lord Tebbit, I apologise to the Committee for having come in just a few minutes...
Lord Drayson | 685 c430-2 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful for the sensitivity shown by all Members of the Committee who have spoken an...
Lord Craig of Radley | 685 c428 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make one comment on the amendment. I accept its thrust but I am disappointed that it shoul...
Lord Tebbit | 685 c428-9 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Committee will forgive my speaking, not having heard the earlier speeches, but I was...
Lord Garden | 685 c426-7 (Link to this contribution) I find this a very difficult topic, and obviously others in your Lordships’ House have been consider...
Viscount Slim | 685 c427-8 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps we could debate whether a Government or politicians should tamper with and sanitise history,...
Lord Selsdon | 685 c426 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may be a little personal about this, because this is sensitive amendment which has been in...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 685 c422-3 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may speak in support of the amendment, as my name is on it. I put my name on it because I ...
Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 685 c423-4 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for the outstandingly sensitive speeches that we have heard already in this short...
Lord Borrie | 685 c424-5 (Link to this contribution) I share the views that have just been expressed by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mayhew of Twysde...
Lord Drayson | 685 c417-20 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 177A: After Clause 354, insert the following new clause- ““PARDONS FOR SERVICE...
Lord Dubs | 685 c420 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the government amendment and what my noble friend has said. I am grateful to him...
Lord Luke | 685 c420-1 (Link to this contribution) We all sympathise with the descendants of the soldiers who were executed during the First World War ...
Lord Astor of Hever | 685 c422 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest in these two amendments in that my grandfather was the commander-in-chief of t...
Lord Drayson | 685 c417 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 173A: Page 178, line 5, leave out ““Supreme Court”” and insert ““Court of Judi...
Lord Drayson | 685 c417 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 174 to 177: Page 236, line 7, leave out ““Court Martial's”” and insert ““cou...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c412-3 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 172, tabled in my name, is grouped with Amendment No. 171, although it deals with an e...
Earl Attlee | 685 c412 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 171: After Clause 339, insert the following new clause- ““MAINTENANCE OF RECOR...
Lord Garden | 685 c410 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 165: Page 168, line 41, at end insert ““or ( ) an independent member (see subs...
Lord Drayson | 685 c410 (Link to this contribution) Amendments Nos. 165 to 169 require an independent member on all redress panels and allow the Secreta...
Lord Garden | 685 c410-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his response. It does not really answer the concerns of the Deepcu...
Lord Drayson | 685 c411-2 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 169A and 169B: After Clause 335, insert the following new clause- ““Role of ...
Lord Craig of Radley | 685 c395 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for what he has said. I noted in particular that he was proposing to make amend...
Lord Drayson | 685 c395 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 164A: Page 167, line 30, after ““complaint”” insert ““, or an application of a...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 685 c395 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. In moving this Motion I suggest that the Committee resum...
Earl Attlee | 685 c417 (Link to this contribution) I have to agree with the analysis of my amendment given by the noble Lord, Lord Garden. If there wer...
Lord Drayson | 685 c416 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely accept the importance of the matter. As noble Lords have described, it is a matter of w...
Lord Glenarthur | 685 c416 (Link to this contribution) I had not anticipated taking part in the debate on this amendment. My noble friend Lord Attlee and t...
Earl Attlee | 685 c414-5 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 173: After Clause 344, insert the following new clause- ““DISCRIMINATION AGAIN...
Lord Astor of Hever | 685 c415 (Link to this contribution) My name is on this amendment and I wholeheartedly support it. Since 1 April 2004 new recruits to the...
Lord Drayson | 685 c413-4 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to noble Lords and I recognise absolutely the deep importance of recording...
Earl Attlee | 685 c414 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his response to the short debate. My only observation is that if the MoD is...
Baroness Park of Monmouth | 685 c413 (Link to this contribution) I support this amendment because I remember that at the beginning of the Gulf War inquiries many det...
Viscount Slim | 685 c413 (Link to this contribution) In war, if you are killed, you are killed; if you are wounded, you are wounded; and if you are injur...
Lord Boyce | 685 c365 (Link to this contribution) I support this amendment. I comprehensively disagree with the assessment of the noble Lord, Lord Tho...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c364-5 (Link to this contribution) Members of the Committee will appreciate from the speeches I made yesterday that I am against this a...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 685 c364 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for my intervention: I shall be brief. I have put down my name in support of my noble fr...
Lord Astor of Hever | 685 c363-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 132: Page 78, line 3, at end insert- ““( ) Court Martial rules must make provi...
Lord Drayson | 685 c363 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now again resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. Mov...
Lord Garden | 685 c366 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend Lord Thomas of Gresford, from my own military perspective. I am slightly s...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 685 c366 (Link to this contribution) As we are in Committee, I hope that I may briefly intervene. I agree with everything that the noble ...
Viscount Slim | 685 c365-6 (Link to this contribution) I, too, disagree with the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford. If a soldier, sailor or airman commit...
Lord Drayson | 685 c368 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully and will reflect further on this matter. I hope that when noble Lords read...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 685 c368 (Link to this contribution) In view of the support of noble and gallant Lords, who, let’s face it, know far more about this matt...
Lord Boyce | 685 c368 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for clarifying his presumption, which has been helpful, but perhaps I ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c367-8 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to the contributions that have been made this morning across the Committee...
Lord Vincent of Coleshill | 685 c366-7 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support the amendment. With respect, I disagree with the noble Lords, Lord Garden and Lor...
Lord Drayson | 685 c368 (Link to this contribution) No. I am stressing the growing importance of joint operations—for example, the joint helicopter forc...
Earl Attlee | 685 c368 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that we should take a pragmatic view of the nature of operations. He talked also a...
Lord Astor of Hever | 685 c369-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friends Lord Campbell of Alloway and Lord Attlee, the noble and gallant Lords, Lord...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c370 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 133: Page 78, line 5, at end insert- ““( ) for the preparation and delivery of...
Lord Drayson | 685 c372 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 134 to 135: Page 78, line 20, at end insert- ““(ga) for the variation by the...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c372 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister bear in mind that I have not, as yet, got to Amendment No. 156A? Again, this seems...
Lord Drayson | 685 c370-2 (Link to this contribution) In responding to Amendment No. 132, I shall also respond to Amendments Nos. 133 to 135 and to Amendm...
Earl Attlee | 685 c370 (Link to this contribution) I have rather more sympathy for the noble Lord’s amendment, particularly his point about standardisa...
Earl Attlee | 685 c375 (Link to this contribution) My experience of courts martial is that the judge advocate advises the panel on the appropriate sent...
Lord Bramall | 685 c375 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may ask the noble Lord what the effect would be in practice if the procedure was the rever...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c374-5 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 140: After Clause 164, insert the following new clause- ““SENTENCING (1) The s...
Lord Drayson | 685 c373-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 139A: Before Clause 164, insert the following new clause- ““SENTENCING POWERS ...
Lord Boyce | 685 c375 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Thomas, has suggested that the lay members have no experience in sentencing, bu...
Viscount Slim | 685 c375-6 (Link to this contribution) My experience is that the president would have made himself familiar with the possible sentences bef...
Lord Borrie | 685 c376 (Link to this contribution) The noble Earl, Lord Attlee, has helpfully explained the present position, in which the judge advoca...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c376-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not suggest for a moment that there is gross failure in the current system, but we do not requi...
Lord Craig of Radley | 685 c376 (Link to this contribution) There must be a presumption in what the noble Lord, Lord Thomas, is suggesting that current arrangem...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c377-8 (Link to this contribution) The noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, for whose contribution I am very grateful, brings to mind t...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 685 c377 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister give us any information about the extent to which there have been over some period,...
Earl of Onslow | 685 c378 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, makes a very interesting point. If the matter is raised on ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c378 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to what has been said, but I am sure that noble Lords will not be surprise...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c379-80 (Link to this contribution) My amendment includes in subsection (2): "““In determining the appropriate sentence, the judge advoc...
Lord Drayson | 685 c378-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Earl. I will do that. Our discussions across the House during the Bill’s ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c381 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 142: Page 93, line 16, leave out ““section 281 or”” The noble Lord said: Thes...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c380 (Link to this contribution) First, if the Minister is to provide us with details of successful appeals on sentence to the Court ...
Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 685 c380 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the noble Lord will take a minute to deal a little more fully with the point raised by the n...
Earl Attlee | 685 c384 (Link to this contribution) The Minister used the word ““invariably””. Is he quite confident about that?
Earl Attlee | 685 c382 (Link to this contribution) I have tabled Amendment No. 156 in this group. It suggests that a civilian court must take into acco...
Lord Drayson | 685 c382-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall respond to Amendment 147 and then to Amendments Nos. 151 to 156 in this group. Amendment No....
Lord Drayson | 685 c381 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 145: Page 99, line 20, at end insert- ““( ) In determining in any case- (a) wh...
Lord Garden | 685 c381-2 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 147: Page 117, line 19, after ““have”” insert ““particular”” The noble Lord s...
Lord Drayson | 685 c381 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 143: Page 93, line 21, leave out ““section 281 or”” On Question, amendment ag...
Lord Drayson | 685 c381 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 144: Page 97, line 44, at end insert- ““( ) Any provision included by virtue o...
Earl Attlee | 685 c384 (Link to this contribution) I have an exceptionally bad habit of not moving amendments in order to make good progress. The Minis...
Lord Drayson | 685 c384 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the concern alluded to by the noble Earl. I will therefore ask my researchers to make su...
Lord Drayson | 685 c384 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to write to the noble Lord and give him that information.
Lord Garden | 685 c384 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. It was helpful to hear how he saw the welfare issues raised in the am...
Lord Drayson | 685 c387 (Link to this contribution) As the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, said, we have dealt with a number of these points. For e...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c387 (Link to this contribution) Save for the fact that I think this is an important issue which should be on the face of the Bill, t...
Lord Garden | 685 c384 (Link to this contribution) With that assurance, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause...
Lord Drayson | 685 c384 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 148: Page 121, line 40, after ““custody”” insert ““in connection with the offe...
Lord Drayson | 685 c385 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 149 and 150: Page 122, line 37, leave out ““it takes effect”” and insert ““a...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c385-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 156A: Page 219, line 11, at end insert- ““After section 36C insert- ““36D APPE...
Lord Garden | 685 c387 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 157: Page 138, line 2, leave out ““Secretary of State”” and insert ““Attorney ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c388 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 158: Before Clause 281, insert the following new clause- ““PUNISHMENTS AVAILAB...
Lord Drayson | 685 c388 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 157A: Page 222, line 9, leave out ““Supreme Court”” and insert ““Court of Judi...
Lord Garden | 685 c387 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. I am not sure whether his argument takes us any further forward, but ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c387 (Link to this contribution) We are aiming to achieve a situation in which the military justice system, as a separate system of s...
Lord Drayson | 685 c389-90 (Link to this contribution) I am mindful of the concerns that there may be about random drug testing, but it is important to rec...
Earl Attlee | 685 c390 (Link to this contribution) We have heard that the Defence Council hardly ever meets. What is the Defence Council?
Lord Drayson | 685 c388-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 159: After Clause 290, insert the following new clause- ““COMMENCEMENT OF SUSP...
Lord Garden | 685 c389 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 163: Page 152, line 34, leave out ““Defence Council”” and insert ““Secretary o...
Lord Drayson | 685 c390 (Link to this contribution) The Defence Council is the senior management body of the Ministry of Defence. Its membership compris...
Lord Craig of Radley | 685 c390-1 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 164: Page 167, line 7, leave out subsection (2). The noble and gallant Lord s...
Lord Garden | 685 c390 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his reply. He described what the Defence Council, on the rare occa...
Lord Garden | 685 c392 (Link to this contribution) I have not spoken to Amendment No. 170.
Lord Drayson | 685 c391-2 (Link to this contribution) This is a key element of the Bill. Before speaking to government amendments, I shall respond to Amen...
Lord Drayson | 685 c392 (Link to this contribution) Would the noble Lord prefer to go first on this amendment?
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 685 c392 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, the Minister has a right to speak on the amendment because it is in the grouping...
Lord Garden | 685 c392-3 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is very gracious. I thought that it would save him a little time if I spoke to my Amend...
Lord Drayson | 685 c393 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for his assistance in making progress on the Bill today. I have take...
Lord Craig of Radley | 685 c393-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak to the amendments which the Minister has just been speaking about. As I reminded the H...
Lord Drayson | 685 c394 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to what the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig, has said. It is not our in...
Lord Garden | 685 c444 (Link to this contribution) My Amendment No. 186 would quantify the military experience required. It is in line with other parts...
Lord Boyce | 685 c444-5 (Link to this contribution) The two previous speakers have spoken eloquently to the amendments. In our debates so far on the Bil...
Lord Drayson | 685 c445-7 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that this is an important area of the Bill. It is a subject on which we have had many di...
Earl Attlee | 685 c445 (Link to this contribution) I rise briefly to urge the Minister to accept this amendment, or something similar.
Lord Ramsbotham | 685 c445 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment in the name of my noble and gallant friend Lord Inge. In preparing for our d...
Lord Astor of Hever | 685 c445 (Link to this contribution) My name also has been added to the first of the two amendments and I strongly support it. It should ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c448 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 186A: Page 181, line 11, leave out ““Supreme Court”” and insert ““Court of Jud...
Lord Inge | 685 c447 (Link to this contribution) I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendment No. 186 not move...
Lord Drayson | 685 c447 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble and gallant Lord. I recognise the strong feeling in the services on this ...
Lord Inge | 685 c447 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that reply and the assurances that he has given. He clearly recognises our ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c448 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 186B: After Clause 359, insert the following new clause- ““Service Complaints ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c448 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Minister would agree not to move that amendment at this stage. I think that my ...
Earl Attlee | 685 c448 (Link to this contribution) Would it not be better to have it in the Bill and, if we are not quite happy with it, to amend it on...
Lord Drayson | 685 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 187, on which I can be brief, would extend the service jurisdiction to civilians in mi...
Earl Attlee | 685 c448 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 187: Page 251, line 18, at end insert- ““(c) any period when pressurised doors...
Earl Attlee | 685 c449 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 190: Page 183, line 25, leave out ““and 336”” and insert ““, 336 and 355”” Th...
Earl Attlee | 685 c449 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his reply and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) I am in awe of the noble Lord’s grip of the complexity of these matters at this late stage in the co...
Lord Garden | 685 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps if I speak to my amendments, some of the commentaries might be short-circuited. This is a co...
Lord Garden | 685 c451 (Link to this contribution) The Minister’s reply contained no surprises in the sense that it restated the position as it is. The...
Lord Campbell of Alloway | 685 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment, but it does not really deal with the essence of the problem, which has been...
Earl Attlee | 685 c438 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support the amendment, apart from the fact that it does not go far enough. Members of our...
Lord Garden | 685 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 183A: After Clause 354, insert the following new clause- ““RESPONSIBILITIES OF...
Lord Astor of Hever | 685 c437 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend Lord Attlee and the noble Lord, Lord Garden, for their support. I very much ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c436-7 (Link to this contribution) I can be very helpful and direct on this point. We are in complete agreement with noble Lords on the...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c436 (Link to this contribution) From a practical point of view, such a manual is very much needed. There is no readily available vol...
Lord Garden | 685 c436 (Link to this contribution) I generally support the amendment. We all know that there must be a manual of military law at some s...
Earl Attlee | 685 c436 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend. I have two questions about the future manual of military law, manual of d...
Lord Astor of Hever | 685 c435-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 183: After Clause 354, insert the following new clause- ““MANUAL OF MILITARY L...
Lord Craig of Radley | 685 c439 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that I would support the amendment in its present form. It is not that there are not ...
Lord Inge | 685 c444 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 185: Page 180, line 31, at end insert- ““(e) has appropriate military qualific...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c443 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Minister’s assurance in relation to the civilian status of the judge advocates...
Lord Drayson | 685 c442-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, for giving me the opportunity to respond. ...
Baroness Crawley | 685 c444 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 184B: Page 180, line 26, leave out ““Supreme Court”” and insert ““Court of Jud...
Baroness Crawley | 685 c443-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 184A: Before Clause 357, insert the following new clause- ““JUDGE ADVOCATES In...
Lord Drayson | 685 c440-1 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the concern on this matter, in particular as it has been expressed in so far as it relat...
Lord Kingsland | 685 c439-40 (Link to this contribution) We are signatories to the 1984 Convention on the Prohibition of Torture, which prohibits torture in ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c442 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 184: After Clause 356, insert the following new clause- ““JUDGE ADVOCATES The ...
Lord Garden | 685 c441-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his reply and to those who have spoken in this short debate. The n...
Lord Drayson | 685 c462 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 207A: Page 190, line 36, after ““sections”” insert ““(Pardons for servicemen e...
Baroness Hayman | 685 c452 (Link to this contribution) I have to tell the House that if Amendment No. 194 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment No. 195 by ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c452 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments No. 193. Page 183, line 30, leave out ““or 372”” and insert ““, 372 or (alignment...
Lord Drayson | 685 c452 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 191: Page 183, line 30, after ““89,”” insert ““113,”” On Question, amendment ...
Earl Attlee | 685 c451 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that response, and I beg leave to withdraw my amendment. Amendmen...
Lord Drayson | 685 c453-7 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 203A: Page 258, line 16, at end insert- ““Army Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 18) ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c457 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the provisions for preliminary hearings as to plea, which is very important in saving time...
Lord Drayson | 685 c452 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 200: Page 183, line 39, after ““instrument”” insert ““under this Act”” On Que...
Lord Drayson | 685 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 201ZA and 201ZB: Page 185, line 31, leave out from ““advocate”””” to end of ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c452 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 194: Page 183, line 31, leave out paragraph (b). On Question, amendment agree...
Lord Drayson | 685 c452 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 195A: Page 183, line 35, leave out ““or”” and insert- ““( ) regulations under ...
Lord Drayson | 685 c458 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for his positive comments on the Explanatory Notes, and I echo the s...
Lord Garden | 685 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to come back to earth; there is a small amendment of mine tucked in this grouping. Amendm...
Lord Drayson | 685 c459 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 203B and 203C: Page 259, line 14, at end insert- ““Coroners Act (Northern Ir...
Lord Garden | 685 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Minister for that explanation. It appears that what I am after is going to...
Lord Astor of Hever | 685 c457 (Link to this contribution) From these Benches, I associate myself with the warm comments of the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gres...
Earl Attlee | 685 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree that the drafting of my amendments makes no difference whatever to how the Act wi...
Lord Drayson | 685 c459 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 203D: Page 313, line 34, at end insert- On Question, amendment agreed to. Sc...
Earl Attlee | 685 c460 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 206: Page 190, leave out line 19. The noble Earl said: In moving Amendment No...
Lord Drayson | 685 c460 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief. We are all agreed that the Armed Forces Bill, once enacted, should be subject to th...
Earl Attlee | 685 c364 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support my noble friend. I am unhappy about mixed panels, with the obvious exception of w...
Lord Drayson | 685 c459-60 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 205: After Clause 373, insert the following new clause- ““ALIGNMENT OF SDAS ET...
Bishop of Chelmsford | 685 c425 (Link to this contribution) The language of pardon is rooted in our Christian history. What pardon does is clear the agenda. In ...
Lord Astor of Hever | 685 c413 (Link to this contribution) With Amendment No. 171 my noble friend Lord Attlee raises an important point about the maintenance o...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 685 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) In support of the Minister’s position, although I do not entirely agree with it, one can see the ano...
Earl Attlee | 685 c369 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, has overlooked the fact that my noble friend’s amendment sa...
Baroness D'Souza | 685 c438 (Link to this contribution) I have put my name to the amendment, and shall say a very few words. The Minister, senior military p...
Lord Garden | 685 c432-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 182: After Clause 354, insert the following new clause- ““SPECIAL PROVISION FO...
Lord Garden | 685 c415 (Link to this contribution) I am deeply sympathetic to the tales told us by the noble Earl, Lord Attlee. Of course his amendment...
Subjects
Complaints Disciplinary proceedings Children Compensation Armed forces Death Convictions Aircraft Courts martial Desertion Coroners Employment Equality Drugs Harassment Judges International law Qualifications Powers Membership Prosecutions Misuse Staff Officers Prerogative of mercy Miscarriages of justice Military law Military aircraft Sentencing Young people Reserve forces Testing Rules of procedure World War I Time limits Trial in camera
Legislation
Armed Forces Bill 2005-06
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