Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

I move amendment No. 2b:

In page 6, between lines 51 and 52, to insert the following:

"(13) Any power to order imprisonment for debt under the Debtors (Ireland) Act 1872 shall not be exercised save in accordance with the conditions specified in this section.".

We have very good legal people in the Labour Party, as Members can imagine, and they are very good at looking at old statutes. The 1872 Act appears to provide for possible imprisonment for debt. To avoid a constitutional challenge to that Act, we wish to provide that the same conditions would apply to imprisonment under that Act.

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