Lead member
Pete Wishart
Scottish National Party, Perth and Kinross-shire
Commons
Decision
Not called
The amendment was debated as part of a group of amendments, but not put to a vote.
Amendment text
Clause 18, page 11, line 36
at end insert—
““(E1C)
(a)For the purposes of subsections (E1A) and (E1B), a person cannot commit an offence if the person is an asylum seeker.
(b)
For the purposes of this subsection, “asylum seeker” means a person who intends to claim that to remove them from or require them to leave the United Kingdom would be contrary to the United Kingdom’s obligations under—
(i)
the Refugee Convention (within the meaning given by section 167(1) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999), or
(ii)
the Human Rights Convention (within the meaning given by that 35 section).”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would specify that the offence created by clause 18 (“Endangering another during sea crossing to United Kingdom”) cannot apply to asylum seekers.