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  Serious Crime Bill - Clause 70 - Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders - Threshold
  
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  @ MP voted aye for a lower threshold at which courts would be able to make female genital mutilation protection orders.
  @ MP voted no against a lower threshold at which courts would be able to make female genital mutilation protection orders. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted to allow a protection order be made to protect a girl "against the commission of a genital mutilation offence" rather than "against a risk of commission of a genital mutilation offence".
  
  The wording "a risk of" would have provided for a lower threshold at which the courts would have been able to make such an order.
  
  
  MPs were considering the Serious Crime Bill[2]. 
  
  The amendment rejected by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :page 63, line 27, leave out "the" and insert "a risk of"
  
  Clause 70(1) of the Bill[3] to which would have been affected by the amendment stated:
  
  :70 (1) (1) The court in England and Wales may make an order (an âFGM protection orderâ) for the purposes ofâ
  : (a) protecting a girl against the commission of a genital mutilation offence, or
  : (b) protecting a girl against whom any such offence has been committed. 
  
  The impact of the proposed amendment was discussed during the debate[3].
  
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  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2014-2015/0116/cbill_2014-20150116_en_7.htm#pt5-l1g70 Clause 70 of the Bill to which the amendment relates]
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2015-02-23c.51.7#g63.0 Official Record, House of Commons, 23 February 2015]
  * [3] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2014-15/seriouscrime.html Parliament's webpage on the Serious Crime Bill]
  
  
  
  
  
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