division_name: Commons Amendment
motion: <p pid="a.1441.1/1" pwmotiontext="lines">14 After Clause 13, insert the following new clause&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/2" pwmotiontext="quot">"INDEPENDENT MEMBERS: DISQUALIFICATION</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/3" pwmotiontext="lines">(1) In paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c.32) (disqualification for membership of district policing partnership) for sub-paragraph (2) substitute&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/4" pwmotiontext="quot">"(2) A person is disqualified for being an independent member of a DPP if&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/5" pwmotiontext="lines">(a) he has been convicted in Northern Ireland or elsewhere of any offence and has had passed on him a sentence of imprisonment or detention, and</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/6" pwmotiontext="lines">(b) the relevant period has not ended.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/7" pwmotiontext="lines">(3) The relevant period is the period of five years beginning with the person's discharge in respect of the offence.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/8" pwmotiontext="lines">(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) the following are to be treated as the discharge of a person (whether or not his release is subject to conditions)&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/9" pwmotiontext="lines">(a) his release on licence;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/10" pwmotiontext="lines">(b) his release in pursuance of a grant of remission.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/11" pwmotiontext="lines">(5) Sub-paragraph (4) does not apply in relation to the release of a person in respect of an offence if he is required to return to prison or detention for a further period in respect of the offence.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/12" pwmotiontext="lines">(6) Subject to sub-paragraph (7), the reference in sub-paragraph (2) to a sentence of imprisonment or detention does not include a suspended sentence.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/13" pwmotiontext="lines">(7) Sub-paragraph (6) does not apply in relation to a suspended sentence that has been ordered to take effect.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/14" pwmotiontext="lines">(8) In this paragraph "suspended sentence" means a sentence of imprisonment or detention that is ordered not to take effect unless the conditions specified in the order are met."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.1/15" pwmotiontext="lines">(2) Subsection (1) comes into force in accordance with provision made by the Secretary of State by order."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.3/1" pwmotiontext="moved">rose to move, as an amendment to the Motion that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 14:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.3/2" pwmotiontext="moved">14Aleave out "agree" and insert "disagree".</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.5/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 14A) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1441.5/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 94; Not-Contents, 147.</p>