London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) BILL

These notes relate to the Lords Amendments to the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill, as brought from the House of Lords on 21 November 2011

Explanatory Notes

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INTRODUCTION

1. These explanatory notes relate to the Lords Amendments to the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill, as brought from the House of Lords on 21 November 2011. They have been prepared by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in order to assist the reader of the Bill and the Lords Amendments and to help inform debate on the Lords Amendments. They do not form part of the Bill and have not been endorsed by Parliament.

2. These notes, like the Lords Amendments themselves, refer to HL Bill 95, the Bill as first printed for the Lords.

3. These notes need to be read in conjunction with the Lords Amendments and the text of the Bill. They are not, and are not meant to be, a comprehensive description of the effect of the Lords Amendments.

4. All the Lords Amendments were in the name of the Minister.

COMMENTARY ON Lords amendments

Lords Amendments 1 and 2

5. Lords Amendments 1 and 2 would amend Clause 2 so as to provide for regulations under the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 that relate to advertising or trading to be subject to the affirmative procedure, unless the Secretary of State considers (or, in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers consider) that, for reasons of urgency, it is necessary to use the negative procedure. The Bill currently provides for the first set of regulations in each case to be subject to the affirmative procedure, with subsequent regulations subject to the negative procedure.

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Lords Amendment 3

6. Lords Amendment 3 would also amend Clause 2 so as to make corresponding provision for procedure in the Scottish Parliament in the case of regulations relating to advertising or trading made by the Scottish Ministers.