Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

moved Amendment No. 64: 64: Clause 6, page 6, line 1, leave out subsections (3) and (4) The noble Lord said: In moving AmendmentNo. 64 I shall speak also to Amendment No. 69. Yet again, these are amendments tabled to discover what the Government intended in bringing forward amendments on Report in another place. I understand that those amendments were added after the debate in Committee on the emergency services provisions in the Bill and it is unfortunate that again the Government did not give themselves enough time to explain the considerable redrafting of the clause. The amendments have, I believe, improved the clause by identifying where exemptions do and do not apply and I am pleased that the Government have taken on board the comments of my honourable friend in another place, the shadow Attorney-General, Mr Dominic Grieve, who pointed out the potential for confusion within hospitals in both accident and emergency departments and treatment departments. All I seek in moving the amendment is to have an assurance from the Minister that there will not now be such confusion. I beg to move.