POLItE AMENDMENT BILL.
 President: I call upon the Honourable Crown Attorney to move the
introduction of the Police Amendment Bill.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney: I beg to move that a Bill for an
Ordinance shortly entitled the Police (Amendment) Ordinance 1950 be read a
second time.
 Honourable Acting Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Bill read a second time.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : I beg leave to move that the Council
resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council to consider the Bill clause by
clause.
 Honourable Acting Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.

 In Committee.
 Clause 2-Section 10 of Principal Ordinance amended.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 3-Section 59(1) of Principal Ordinance repealed and replaced.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 4-Penalty on persons causing disaffection &c.
 President : Is the definition laid down in the Ordinance.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : Could it be stretched to mean anything?
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney: What amounts to disaffection has in
 the past received judicial interpretation.
 Honourable O. D. Brisbane : Do you mean induce the Police to go on strike?
 President : I think we should explain that this is a matter which was put to
 us by the Secretary of State about six or seven months ago.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : Much longer than that sir.
 President : The Secretary of State raised a question as to whether there was
 legislation in these Colonies which provided for taking action against anyone who
 willfully upset the Police Force.
 Honourable Acting @rown Attorney: This arose out of an act passed in
 England since the war.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : Are the Police allowed to join the
 Trade Union?
 President: I do not know.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : No.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown: From my experience I have to be very
 careful what these things are.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Clause 1-Short Title and Enacting Clause.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : I beg leave to move that the Committee
 rise, Council resume, and the President report to the House.
 Honourable Acting Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.

 Council Resumes.
 President : I beg to report that an Ordinance to amend the Police Ordinance,
 1947, has passed through the Committee stage without amendmeMt.