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Lords division · 8 Nov 2000 · No. 4

Police (Northern Ireland) Bill

It was moved by the Lord Glentoran, in Schedule 1, page 46, line 49, at end to insert: (“(d) he has at any time been convicted of a scheduled offence under the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973, the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978, the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991, the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 or Part VII of the Terrorism Act 2000; (e) he has at any time been convicted in Northern Ireland or elsewhere of any offence and has had passed on him a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not); (f) the political party of which he is a member is linked to any organisation which has failed to begin the decommissioning of arms and explosives in a manner verified by the Commission referred to in section 7 of the Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Act 1997; (g) he is not committed to non-violence and exclusively peaceful and democratic means; or (h) the political party of which he is a member is linked to an organisation that has failed to satisfy any of the four factors set out in section 3(9)(a), (b), (c) and (d) of the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998”); which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 83

Contents: 33 Not Contents: 116

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 83 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 22
Crossbench 7
Non-affiliated 3
Ulster Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Labour 94
Liberal Democrat 9
Crossbench 6
Non-affiliated 6
Bishops 1

The party breakdowns are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.

Peers attend divisions ad hoc, so there is no did-not-vote list. Tellers are counted in the Content and Not Content totals, unlike in the Commons.

Tellers: Lord Burnham (Content), Lord Henley (Content), Lord Carter (Not Content), The Lord McIntosh of Haringey (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (31)

Not Contents (114)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.