division_name: Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
motion: <p pid="a.1117.4/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 144B:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1117.4/2" pwmotiontext="moved">After Clause 129, insert the following new Clause&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1117.4/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"Blasphemy and blasphemous libel</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1117.4/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(1) The offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel under the common law of England and Wales are abolished.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1117.4/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(2) In section 1 of the Criminal Libel Act 1819 (60 Geo. 3 &amp; 1 Geo. 4 c. 8) (orders for seizure of copies of blasphemous or seditious libel) the words "any blasphemous libel, or" are omitted.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1117.4/6" pwmotiontext="moved">(3) In sections 3 and 4 of the Law of Libel Amendment Act 1888 (c. 64) (privileged matters) the words "blasphemous or" are omitted.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1117.4/7" pwmotiontext="moved">(4) Subsections (2) and (3) (and the related repeals in Schedule 38) extend to England and Wales only."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1147.1/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 144B) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1147.1/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 148; Not-Contents, 87.</p>