division_name: Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill
motion: <p pid="b.1277.69/1" pwmotiontext="bill">Read a third time.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1277.70/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved the Amendment:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1277.70/2" pwmotiontext="moved">After Clause 16, insert the following new clause-</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1277.70/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"EXCLUSION OF MINISTERS FROM OFFICE</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1277.70/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(1) Section 30 of the 1998 Act (exclusion of Ministers from office) is amended as follows.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1277.70/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(2) After subsection (1)(b) insert-</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1277.70/6" pwmotiontext="moved">"(c) because he is no longer committed to upholding the rule of law in Northern Ireland,".</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1277.70/7" pwmotiontext="moved">(3) After subsection (2)(b) insert-</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1277.70/8" pwmotiontext="moved">"(c) because it is no longer committed to upholding the rule of law in Northern Ireland,".</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1277.70/9" pwmotiontext="moved">(4) After subsection (7)(d) insert-</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1277.70/10" pwmotiontext="moved">"(da) whether he or it is committed now and in the future to upholding the rule of law in Northern Ireland;"."</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1277.83/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 1) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1277.83/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 97; Not-Contents, 149.</p>