BLASPHEMY BILL
WITHDRAWAL OF AMENDING MEASURE LABOURITES DISAPPOINTED LONDON, Tuesday. A Blasphemy Bill that had been introduced in the House of Commons by back-bench Labour members, designed to prevent criminal proceedings being taken in any court for schism, heresy, blasphemy, blasphemous libel, or atheism, was withdravrn today. The measure was recently read a second time, but in committee today Sir James Melville, Solicitor-General, said the Government would insist upon an additional clause . making it an offence to publish any scurrilous matter that outraged religious convictions. Mr. E. Thurtle (Labour) said this was mpst disappointing to supporters of the Bill. They would rather leave the existing law unchanged than accept the new clause, and therefore would withdraw the measure.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 908, 27 February 1930, Page 11
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