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  Racial and Religious Hatred Bill
  
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  <p>Those voting No agreed that the "Lords amendment No. 4" to the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldbills/031/06031.i-i.html">Racial and Religious Hatred Bill</a> should stand (it's already present in that version, here's <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/011/2006011.htm">the pre-Lords version</a>).  This was against the wishes of the Government who had their <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/120/amend/60131m01.htm">own amendments</a> prepared.</p>
  
  <p><b>What is "Lords amendment No. 4"?</b></p>
  
  <p>Lords amendment No. 4 can be found on <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/120/06120.1-6.html">this page on parliament.uk</a>. It was debated and passed in the Lords on <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/text/51025-21.htm">25th October 2005</a>. It replaced the entire Schedule in the original Bill (which edited Part 3 of the Public Order Act 1986), replacing it with one that added a separate Part 3A instead. This had the main effect of making the law only criminalise "threatening" behaviour.</p>
  
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  (put thoughts and notes for other researchers here)
  
  <p><b>In summary</b>, it would appear that this Bill's "Schedule" primarily inserts a huge section of material into the Public Order Act 1986, which is not online.  <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/011/06011.i-i.html"> Version 1</a> was passed by the House of Commons on <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2005-07-11&number=35"> 2005-07-11</a>.  Then on <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/index/51025-x.htm#contents">2005-10-25</a> the House of Lords changed it to <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldbills/031/06031.1-7.html#j610a"> Version 2</a>.  And this current, very seriously contested vote in the House of Commons, which this page is about, decided to stick by this version.  Had they voted against it (voting "Aye" to the motion "This House disagrees with the Lords in the said amendment"), as the Government wanted them to, they would have replaced it with a <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/120/amend/60131m01.htm"> 
  Version 3</a>.</p>  
  
  <p>After working out what happened, someone else can volunteer to work out what all these different versions mean, and whether their differences were important or not, as some commentators are arguing.</p>
  
  