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Select Committee on Legislation and Security debate -
Thursday, 21 Jul 1994

SECTION 16.

I move amendment No. 18:

In page 15, paragraph (c), line 27, after "evidence" to insert "that the order was so made and".

This amendment to section 16 (c) of the Bill makes admissible a document purporting to be a maintenance order made in a designated jurisdiction and to be signed by a judge, magistrate or officer of that court.

The document is made evidence of the respondent's liability to maintain the claimant or the claimant's child and that the claimant was resident or present in that jurisdiction when the relevant proceedings were instituted. Paragraph (c), however, does not make the authenticated order evidence that the order was so made and the amendment is, therefore, designed to fill this gap and to facilitate claimants with the formal evidencing of the order. It is a technical matter.

Amendment agreed to.
Section 16, as amended, agreed to.
Sections 17 to 20, inclusive, agreed to.
SECTION 21.

I move amendment No. 19:

In page 18, subsection (2) (b), line 34, to delete "to be".

This is to correct a drafting slip in the Bill.

Section 21, as amended, agreed to.
Sections 22 to 25, inclusive, agreed to.
FIRST SCHEDULE.

Amendments Nos. 20 and 21 form a composite proposal and will be taken together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

I move amendment No. 20:

In page 24, to delete lines 3 and 4.

These two amendments repair an omission from the text of the Rome Convention relating to the place at which it was signed and the date of signature and is a techical matter.

Amendment agreed to.

I move amendment No. 21:

In page 24, line 5, before "In" to insert "Done at Rome on the sixth day of November in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety,".

Amendment agreed to.
First Schedule, as amended, agreed to.
Second Schedule agreed to.
Title agreed to.
Report of Select Committee.

I propose the following draft report:

The Select Committee has considererd the Bill and has made amendments thereto. The Bill, as amended, is reported to the Dáil.

Is that agreed?

Report agreed to.

Ordered to Report to the Dáil accordingly.

I thank the Minister and Members of the committee for their contributions to the debate.

I thank the Chairman, Members of the committee and the officials of my Department who have been so helpful.

The Select Committee adjourned at 12.40 p.m.

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