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Notices of Amendments: 6 December 2013                  

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Mesothelioma Bill-[Lords], continued

 
 

Paul Goggins

 

56

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  7,  line  10,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

The regulations mentioned in subsection (1) must provide for the levy to include

 

a research supplement in accordance with section [Research supplement] (in

 

addition to the amounts set for the purpose specified in subsection (1)).’.

 

Paul Goggins

 

57

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  7,  line  11,  after ‘levy’, insert ‘(not including the research

 

supplement)’.

 

Paul Goggins

 

58

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  7,  line  16,  after ‘levy’, insert ‘(not including the research

 

supplement)’.

 

Paul Goggins

 

59

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  7,  line  18,  after ‘levy’, insert ‘(not including the research

 

supplement)’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

37

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  7,  line  23,  after ‘insurers’, insert ‘and reinsurers’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

38

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  7,  line  28,  after ‘insurers’, insert ‘and reinsurers’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

39

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  7,  line  40,  leave out ‘with whom to make arrangements’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

40

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  13,  page  8,  line  5,  at end add “‘reinsurer” means a person who, at any time

 

during the reference period, was a person offering reinsurance to active insurers or their

 

reinsurers in respect of employers’ liability insurance and includes retrocessionaires.’.

 


 

Stephen Phillips

 

41

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  14,  page  8,  line  7,  after ‘insurer’, insert ‘or reinsurer’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

42

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  14,  page  8,  line  10,  after ‘insurer’, insert ‘or reinsurer’.


 
 

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Mesothelioma Bill-[Lords], continued

 
 

Stephen Phillips

 

43

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  14,  page  8,  line  12,  after ‘insurer’, insert ‘or reinsurer’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

44

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  14,  page  8,  line  13,  after ‘insurer’, insert ‘or reinsurer’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

45

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  14,  page  8,  line  14,  after ‘insurer’, insert ‘or reinsurer’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

46

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  14,  page  8,  line  18,  after subsection (4) add—

 

‘(5)    

In this section—

 

(a)    

“active insurer” means a person who, at any time during the reference

 

period, was an authorised insurer within the meaning of the compulsory

 

insurance legislation, and

 

(b)    

“reinsurer” means a person who, at any time during the reference period,

 

was a person offering reinsurance to active insurers or their reinsurers in

 

respect of employers’ liability insurance and includes retrocessionaires.’.

 


 

Mr Nicholas Brown

 

68

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  15,  page  8,  line  22,  after ‘which’, insert ‘must have a membership including

 

representatives of the insurers, the potential insurance claimaints and employers, and’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

47

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  15,  page  8,  line  32,  after ‘court’, insert ‘or which is an issue in proceedings

 

which are before a court’.

 

Mr Nicholas Brown

 

69

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  15,  page  8,  line  40,  at end insert ‘which must include at least one

 

representative of each of the parties mentioned in subsection (1).’.

 


 

Stephen Phillips

 

48

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  16,  page  9,  line  18,  after ‘arbitration’, insert ‘or to the relevant court’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

49

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  16,  page  9,  line  30,  at end add—

 

‘(6)    

In this section “the relevant court” means—


 
 

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(a)    

the High Court in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, or

 

(b)    

the Court of Session in Scotland.’.

 


 

Stephen Phillips

 

50

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  17,  page  9,  line  35,  leave out ‘(the scheme)’.

 


 

Stephen Phillips

 

51

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  18,  page  10,  line  5,  after ‘scheme’, insert—

 

“‘applicant” means a person applying for a payment under the scheme.’.

 

Stephen Phillips

 

52

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  18,  page  10,  line  32,  after second ‘Scheme’, insert ‘established in

 

accordance with section 1;’.

 

Kate Green

 

Chris Bryant

 

11

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  18,  page  10,  line  45,  leave out subsection (3) and insert—

 

‘(3)    

In specifying circumstances in which a person is, or is not to be treated as, eligible

 

to bring an action for the purposes of section 2(1)(d), or section 3(1)(c), the

 

scheme shall ensure consistency with the definition of eligibility in section 2 and

 

section 3.’.

 


 

Stephen Phillips

 

53

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  21,  page  11,  line  19,  leave out ‘Mesothelioma Act 2013’ and insert ‘Diffuse

 

Mesothelioma Payment Scheme Act 2013’.

 

Mike Penning

 

1

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

Clause  21,  page  11,  line  20,  leave out subsection (2).

 



 
 

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Mesothelioma Bill-[Lords], continued

 
 

New Clauses

 

Establishing additional schemes

 

Kate Green

 

Chris Bryant

 

NC1

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘The Secretary of State shall within a year of this Act being brought into force,

 

prepare and lay before each House of Parliament a report setting out the

 

Government’s proposals with regard to the establishment of additional schemes

 

for asbestos-related industrial diseases, as prescribed under the Pneumoconiosis

 

etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979, where there are unresolved insurance

 

disputes.’.

 


 

Medical records

 

Kate Green

 

Chris Bryant

 

NC2

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘Schedule 3 contains amendments to other legislation to ensure that where

 

medical records are requested in relation to a scheme established under this Act,

 

they are provided quickly.’.

 


 

Oversight committee

 

Kate Green

 

Chris Bryant

 

NC3

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State must establish, by statutory instrument, an Oversight

 

Committee to monitor, review and report to the Secretary of State on the overall

 

arrangements comprising—

 

(a)    

the scheme;

 

(b)    

scheme administration;

 

(c)    

the Technical Committee;

 

(d)    

the Employers’ Liability Tracing Office; and

 

(e)    

the Electronic Information Gateway.

 

(2)    

The Oversight Committee must include representatives of—

 

(a)    

asbestos victims support groups;

 

(b)    

trade unions; and


 
 

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(c)    

active insurers.

 

(3)    

The Oversight Committee must be chaired by an independent person.’.

 


 

Annual report to Parliament

 

Stephen Phillips

 

NC4

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State shall prepare and lay before Parliament an annual report

 

on the scheme.

 

(2)    

The report to which reference is made in subsection (1) shall include, in

 

particular, an assessment of the extent to which the scheme has caused or

 

contributed to any rise in premiums payable for employers’ liability insurance.’.

 


 

Research supplement

 

Paul Goggins

 

NC5

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

This section makes provision about the research supplement mentioned in section

 

13.

 

(2)    

The research supplement—

 

(a)    

must be expressed by regulations under section 13 as a percentage of the

 

amount set for the purpose specified in section 13(1) in accordance with

 

section 13(2) to (5); and

 

(b)    

may not exceed 1 per cent of that amount.

 

(3)    

Regulations under section 13 must include provision about the application of the

 

research supplement; in particular, the regulations—

 

(a)    

must include provision for amounts raised by way of the research

 

supplement to be applied by way of grants or other financial assistance

 

for research into mesothelioma;

 

(b)    

must require the scheme administrator to make arranagements for the

 

application of the research supplement;

 

(c)    

may allow the scheme administrator to arrange for a body which handles

 

applications for research funding to administer the research supplement

 

on the scheme administrator’s behalf;

 

(d)    

may allow receipts by way of research supplement in respect of one

 

period to be held for allocation in a later period, and for investment of

 

receipts pending allocation.

 

(4)    

Before making regulations in respect of the research supplement the Secretary of

 

State must consult—

 

(a)    

insurers;

 

(b)    

medical charities and research foundations; and


 
 

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(c)    

other persons or bodies who the Secretary of State thinks are likely to be

 

interested.’.

 


 

Payments for legal services in civil cases: diffuse mesothelioma proceedings

 

Paul Goggins

 

NC6

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Section 48 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012

 

(Sections 44 and 46 and diffuse mesothelioma proceedings) is amended as

 

follows.

 

(2)    

In subsection (1), omit from “mesothelioma” to the end of the subsection

 

(including paragraphs (a) and (b)).’.

 


 

Establishing additional schemes: pleural plaques

 

Mr Nicholas Brown

 

NC7

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State shall, within twelve months of any scheme under this Act

 

being implemented, prepare and lay before each House of Parliament a report

 

assessing the costs and benefits of extending the scheme to—

 

(a)    

eligible people with pleural plaques; and

 

(b)    

eligible people with other asbestos-related industrial diseases

 

where there are unresolved insurance disputes.’.

 


 

New Schedule

 

Kate Green

 

Chris Bryant

 

NS1

 

Parliamentary Star - white    

To move the following Schedule:—

 

‘Supply of medical records

 

1          

The Data Protection Act 1998 is amended as follows.

 

2          

In section 7, after subsection (11), insert—

 

“(12)  

Where the request under this section is, and is stated in the request

 

to be, for the purpose of investigating a claim, or application for


 
 

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Mesothelioma Bill-[Lords], continued

 
 

payment, arising from the development of diffuse mesothelioma by

 

the data subject, the prescribed period shall be 14 days.’.

 

 

Order of the House [2 December 2013]

 

That the following provisions shall apply to the Mesothelioma Bill [Lords]:

 

Committal

 

1.    

The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.

 

Proceedings in Public Bill Committee

 

2.    

Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously

 

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 17 December 2013.

 

3.    

The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

 

which it meets.

 

Consideration and Third Reading

 

4.    

Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

 

brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the

 

day on which those proceedings are commenced.

 

5.    

Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

 

brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

 

6.    

Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

 

proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

 

Other proceedings

 

7.    

Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on

 

consideration of any message from the Lords) may be programmed.

 


 
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