Trade Bill — Commons Amendments — Motion C1 (as an amendment to Motion C) — 2 Feb 2021 at 19:15
Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool
3B: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause-“Agreements with states accused of committing genocide(1) The High Court of England and Wales, or the Court of Session in Scotland, or the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, may make a preliminary determination that another signatory to a relevant agreement represents a state which has committed genocide, within the meaning of Article II and Article III of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, following an application to the Court from a person or group of persons belonging to a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, or an organisation representing such a group, which is alleged to have been the subject of that genocide.(2) “A relevant agreement” in subsection (1) is a bilateral trade agreement towards which the United Kingdom is negotiating or to which it is a signatory.(3) The Lord Chancellor must lay before both Houses of Parliament any such preliminary determination by the Court. (4) After the laying before Parliament of a preliminary determination under subsection (3) a Minister of the Crown must, after a reasonable period, make arrangements for a motion to be debated in each House of Parliament requiring the Government to set out its course of action relating to the relevant agreement in subsection (1). (5) This section applies to genocides which occur after this section comes into force, and to those considered by any Court in subsection (1) to have been ongoing at the time of its coming into force.(6) A Minister of the Crown may by regulations made by statutory instrument make provision for or in connection with an application and preliminary determination made pursuant to subsection (1).(7) Regulations under subsection (6) above may in particular- (a) specify the form, content, and criteria for applications;(b) make provision about the procedure to be followed in relation to applications;(c) make provision about the procedure and rules of evidence necessary for consideration of an application by the Court, allowing for contradictory representations to be made.(8) In making such regulations the Minister of the Crown must have regard to-(a) the experience gained in the operation of this section;(b) the object and intended purpose behind the operation of this section including-(i) the upholding of all undertakings in and international obligations arising from the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide;(ii) provision of meaningful access to the Court by persons making applications specified in subsection (1) without hindrance from unreasonable provision made pursuant to subsection (7).(9) Regulations under subsection (6) may contain supplemental, incidental, consequential and transitional provision.(10) A statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (6) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.””
Ayes 359, Noes 188.
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