division_name: Criminal Justice Bill
motion: <p pid="a.852.4/2" pwmotiontext="notmoved">[Amendment No. 216 not moved.]</p>
  
  <p pid="a.853.0/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 216A:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.853.0/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Page 90, line 19, at end insert&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.853.0/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"(8A) The Secretary of State may appoint a person appearing to him to have experience of sentencing policy and the administration of sentences to attend and speak at any meeting of the Council."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.853.0/4" pwmotiontext="moved">On Question, amendment agreed to.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.853.0/5" pwmotiontext="moved">Clause 154 [Duty of court to have regard to sentencing guidelines]:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.853.1/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 217:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.853.1/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Page 92, line 44, at end insert&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.853.1/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"( ) Nothing in subsection (1) shall fetter the judges' overriding discretion in the individual case to set the sentence he thinks is appropriate."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.858.4/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 217) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.858.4/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 36; Not-Contents, 90.</p>