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Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Bill 2018

A BILL TO

Repeal sections 146(4) and 147(3) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, and remove homosexual conduct as grounds for dismissal from Merchant Navy ships.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Section 1: Homosexual acts in the merchant navy: repeals

1) In the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, omit sections 146(4) and 147(3) (homosexual acts as grounds for dismissal from the crew of merchant ships).

Section 2: Commencement, extent and short title

1) This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.

2) The repeals made by section 1 have the same extent as the provisions to which they relate.

3) Subject to subsection (2), this Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

4) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Act 2018.

Written by /u/ContrabannedTheMC on behalf of the Green Party

This division ends on 10th May 2018.