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Armed Forces Bill

Proceeding contribution from Earl Attlee (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Thursday, 3 March 2016. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Armed Forces Bill.

Moved by

Earl Attlee

20A: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—

“Career employment group

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), no female member of the armed forces shall be allocated a “career employment group” whose primary role is to close with and then engage or destroy the enemy in close combat.

(2) In this section, “career employment group” means any alpha-numeric reference number to identify a trade and used for personnel management.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a female member of the Armed Forces who has been specially selected on the basis of being extraordinarily fit and having exceptional mental and other capacities.”

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

769 c181GC 

Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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