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SUPPLEMENT TO THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS

 
 

Tuesday 19 March 2013

 

Committee of the whole House

 

Proceedings

 

Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill


 

Secretary Iain Duncan Smith

 

Agreed to  1

 

Clause  1,  page  3,  line  11,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

Subsection (12) does not affect a person’s ability to apply for a revision or

 

supersession of, or to appeal against, a decision to impose a penalty by reference

 

to other grounds.’.

 

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

 

Clause 2 Agreed to.

 


 

Report

 

Secretary Iain Duncan Smith

 

Added  NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State must appoint an independent person to prepare a report on

 

the operation of the provisions relating to the imposition of a penalty during the

 

period of a year beginning with the day on which this Act comes into force, so far

 

as that operation relates to relevant penalties.

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(2)    

The person must complete the preparation of the report and send it to the

 

Secretary of State as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of the period

 

mentioned in subsection (1).

 

(3)    

On receiving the report, the Secretary of State must lay a copy of it before

 

Parliament.

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(4)    

In this section—

 

“penalty” means a penalty that may be imposed for—

 

(a)    

failing to participate in a scheme within section 17A(1) of the

 

Jobseekers Act 1995, or

 

(b)    

failing to comply with regulations under section 17A of that Act;


 
 

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Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill, continued

 

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“relevant penalty” means a penalty that, but for section 1 of this Act, would

 

not be or would not have been lawfully imposed on a person.’.

 

As Amendments to Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s proposed New Clause (NC1):—

 

Paul Goggins

 

Derek Twigg

 

Mr George Howarth

 

Andrew Miller

 

  (a)

 

Line  3,  leave out ‘a year’ and insert ‘six months’.

 

Paul Goggins

 

Derek Twigg

 

Mr George Howarth

 

Andrew Miller

 

  (b)

 

Line  6,  leave out ‘as soon as reasonably practicable’ and insert ‘within three

 

months’.

 

No Amendments on consideration.

 

 

Bill read the third time on division and passed.

 


 
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