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House of Commons

Thursday 13 March 2014

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

Deregulation Bill

Note

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

Committee [25 February].

Tom Brake

Oliver Heald

9

Schedule  12,  page  131,  line  4,  at end insert—

      ‘()
In the Notes to Group 6, in Note (5A), for “and 5B” substitute “to 5C”.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

Paragraph 43 of Schedule 12 amends Group 6 of Part 2 of Schedule 9 to the Value Added Tax Act

1994 (exemptions) to omit paragraph 5A(b) and insert a new paragraph 5C. This additional

amendment makes a consequential amendment to the Notes to Group 6 (which explain terms used

in the Group).

Chi Onwurah

Toby Perkins

Thomas Docherty

16

Clause  38,  page  28,  line  34,  leave out ‘15’ and insert ‘18’.

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Chi Onwurah

Toby Perkins

Thomas Docherty

15

Clause  43,  page  30,  line  43,  leave out ‘500 persons’ and insert ‘250 persons for an

indoor screening and 1,000 persons for an outdoor screening’.

Chi Onwurah

Toby Perkins

Thomas Docherty

14

Clause  43,  page  31,  line  27,  at end insert—

‘(7A)
Prior to the enactment of the Act, the Government will provide a clear definition

of what sites qualify as “community premises”.’.

Dr Julian Huppert

John Hemming

1

Schedule  17,  page  147,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘The Treason Felony Act 1848


The Treason Felony Act 1848 is repealed.’.

Dr Julian Huppert

John Hemming

13

Schedule  17,  page  147,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘The Treason Felony Act 1848


In section 3 of the Treason Felony Act 1848, leave out from “to deprive” to

“countries, or”.’.

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New ClauseS

TV licence fee non-payment: de-criminalisation

Andrew Bridgen

Mr David Davis

Sammy Wilson

Mr Brian H. Donohoe

Mr David Nuttall

Neil Carmichael

Andrew Bingham

Stephen Mosley

Mr Philip Hollobone

Mr John Redwood

Mr Andrew Turner

Nick de Bois

Angie Bray

Mr David Ruffley

Chris Kelly

Robert Halfon

Mr William Cash

Andrew Rosindell

Tracey Crouch

Nigel Mills

Kate Hoey

Mark Field

Barry Sheerman

Mr Dave Watts

Jason McCartney

Philip Davies

Steve Rotheram

Mr Andrew Love

Martin Vickers

John Cryer

Bob Stewart

Mr Stewart Jackson

Mr Charles Walker

Steve Baker

Mr Brian Binley

Mr Graham Stuart

Bill Wiggin

Mrs Cheryl Gillan

Mr Peter Bone

Adam Afriyie

Mr Gerry Sutcliffe

Jackie Doyle-Price

Pauline Latham

Sir Edward Leigh

John Hemming

Caroline Nokes

James Duddridge

Ian Mearns

Mr James Gray

Annette Brooke

Bob Blackman

Sir Menzies Campbell

Nadine Dorries

Stephen Metcalfe

Zac Goldsmith

Kelvin Hopkins

Valerie Vaz

Andrew Miller

Mark Hendrick

Mr Jim Cunningham

Gordon Birtwistle

Guto Bebb

Dr William McCrea

Andrew Percy

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mr David Crausby

Alec Shelbrooke

Sir Roger Gale

Mr Mark Spencer

Craig Whittaker

David Morris

Jim McGovern

Caroline Lucas

Lorely Burt

Stephen Barclay

Mrs Anne Main

Neil Parish

Frank Dobson

Heather Wheeler

Mr Dominic Raab

Dr Phillip Lee

Henry Smith

Paul Farrelly

Sir Richard Shepherd

Mr Graham Brady

Karen Lumley

Grahame M. Morris

Andrew Stephenson

Dr Matthew Offord

Chris White

Mr Mark Prisk

Mr Nigel Dodds

Austin Mitchell

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

Mr Bernard Jenkin

Stephen McPartland

Jim Dobbin

Chris Williamson

Stephen Gilbert

Andrea Leadsom

Jeremy Lefroy

Mark Durkan

Mr James Clappison

Mr John Baron

Jesse Norman

Mr Frank Field

Dr Julian Huppert

Fiona O’Donnell

Mr Lawrence Robertson

David T. C. Davies

Mr Jonathan Djanogly

Mr Graham Allen

Julian Sturdy

Mr Robert Syms

Jim Shannon

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Mr Adrian Bailey

Mark Pawsey

Charlotte Leslie

Mark Garnier

Chris Heaton-Harris

Mr Crispin Blunt

Rebecca Harris

Dr Sarah Wollaston

Mr James Arbuthnot

Sir James Paice

Mr David Lammy

Mr Stephen Hepburn

Sir Greg Knight

Mr Geoffrey Cox

Sir Edward Garnier

Mr Stephen Dorrell

Tim Loughton

Caroline Dinenage

Ms Gisela Stuart

Stephen Phillips

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Mike Freer

Mike Weatherley

Ian Lavery

Greg Mulholland

Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger

Karl McCartney

Mark Reckless

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NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
Section 363 (licence required for use of TV receiver) of the Communications Act

2003 is amended as follows.

(2)
In subsections (2) and (3), for “guilty of an offence” substitute “liable to a civil

penalty”.

(3)
Leave out subsection (4) and insert—

“(4)
The Secretary of State shall specify by regulations the level of penalty to

be imposed under this section.

(4A)
Regulations under subsection (4) shall be made by statutory instrument.

(4B)
A statutory instrument under subsection (4A) shall not be made unless a

draft has been laid before and approved by both Houses of Parliament.”.’.

Designation of rights over unsealed ways

John Hemming

NC2


To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
Every way to which this section applies shall be designated for inclusion on the

definitive map as a restricted byway, subject to subsections (3) to (8).

(2)
In respect of any way designated as a restricted byway under subsection (1)

unrecorded public rights to use mechanically propelled vehicles shall be

extinguished.

(3)
Subsection (1) applies to any unsealed way which immediately before the

commencement of this section is not shown in any definitive map and statement

as a public right of way but is included in the List of Streets held by the relevant

authority under section 36(6) of the Highways Act 1980.

(4)
Subsection (1) shall come into force one year after commencement but at any

time within that year (or within such time as may be prescribed under Regulations

made under section 56A of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 the

surveying authority may, in respect of any way to which subsection (1) would

otherwise apply, designate that way—

(a)
as being necessary to the ordinary road network for use by the public in

mechanically propelled vehicles; or

(b)
as being more properly designated as a footpath or bridleway taking into

account all known evidence of historic rights; or

(c)
as carrying no public rights taking into account all known evidence of

historic rights,


and in such cases subsection (1) shall only apply as provided for within the

Regulations.

(5)
If at commencement exercise of rights to use mechanically propelled vehicles—

(a)
is reasonably necessary to enable a person with an interest in land to

obtain access to it; or

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(b)
would have been reasonably necessary to enable that person to obtain

access to a part of that land if the person had an interest in that part only,


the right becomes a private right of way for mechanically propelled vehicles for

the benefit of the land or (as the case may be) the part of the land.

(6)
Subsection (1) shall not apply where public rights to use mechanically propelled

vehicles can be shown to exist under the provisions set out in subsections

67(2)(a), (c) or (d) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006.

(7)

(a)
Nothing in this section shall affect the operation of section 53 of, or

Schedule 14 or 15 to, the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the 1981

Act”) in relation to—

(i)
a relevant order made before commencement; or

(ii)
an application made before commencement for a relevant order,

however

(a)
in the event of the order being confirmed as determining

the existence of public rights to use mechanically

propelled vehicles this section shall instead apply, and

(b)
in the event of the order being confirmed as determining

the existence of public footpath or bridleway rights this

section shall be of no effect.

(b)
In this subsection “relevant order” means an order that is made under

section 53 of the 1981 Act and contains modifications relating to that way

by virtue of subsection (3)(c)(i) or (3)(c)(ii) of that Act.

(8)
In this section “unsealed” means a way whose surface, or most of whose surface,

does not consist of concrete, tarmacadam, coated roadstone or other prescribed

material.’.

Order of the House [3 February 2014]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Deregulation Bill:

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 25 March 2014.

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.

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Other proceedings

7.
Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on

consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the

Lords) may be programmed.

Order of the Committee [25 February 2014]

That—

(1)
the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 8.55 am on Tuesday 25

February) meet—

(a)
at 2.00 pm on Tuesday 25 February;

(b)
at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 27 February;

(c)
at 8.55 am and 2.00 pm on Tuesday 4 March;

(d)
at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 6 March;

(e)
at 8.55 am and 2.00 pm on Tuesday 11 March;

(f)
at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 13 March;

(g)
at 8.55 am and 2.00 pm on Tuesday 18 March;

(h)
at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm on Thursday 20 March;

(i)
at 8.55 am and 2.00 pm on Tuesday 25 March;

(2)
the Committee shall hear oral evidence in accordance with the following

Table:

TABLE

Date
Time
Witness

Tuesday 25
Until no later
Institution for Occupational Safety and Health

February
than 9.30 am

Tuesday 25
Until no later
Trades Union Congress;

February
than 10.00 am
Unite

Tuesday 25
Until no later
British Chambers of Commerce

February
than 10.30 am

Tuesday 25
Until no later
BAE Systems

February
than 11.00 am

Tuesday 25
Until no later
R3;

February
than 11.25 am
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied

Workers (Usdaw)

Tuesday 25
Until no later
Janet Davis and Sarah Slade, on behalf of

February
than 2.30 pm
Natural England’s Stakeholder Working

Group on Unrecorded Rights of Way

Tuesday 25
Until no later
Local Government Association

February
than 3.00 pm

Tuesday 25
Until no later
Association of School and College Leaders;

February
than 3.45 pm
Andy Grace, Principal of The Boulevard

Academy, Hull

Tuesday 25
Until no later
Equality and Human Rights Commission

February
than 4.30 pm

Tuesday 25
Until no later
Federation of Small Businesses;

February
than 5.00 pm
Institute of Directors

Tuesday 25
Until no later
Forum of Private Business;

February
than 5.45 pm
Professor Julia Black, Professor of Law,

London School of Economics

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(3)
the proceedings on consideration of the Bill in Committee shall be taken in

the following order: Clauses 1 to 3; Schedule 1; Clauses 4 and 5; Schedule 2;

Clause 6; Schedule 3; Clauses 7 to 11; Schedule 4; Clause 12; Schedule 5;

Clauses 13 to 19; Schedule 6; Clauses 20 to 23; Schedule 7; Clause 24;

Schedule 8; Clause 25; Schedule 9; Clauses 26 to 29; Schedule 10; Clause 30;

Schedule 11; Clauses 31 to 35; Schedule 12; Clause 36; Schedule 13; Clause

37; Schedule 14; Clauses 38 and 39; Schedule 15; Clauses 40 to 57; Schedule

16; Clauses 58 to 60; Schedule 17; Clauses 61 to 69; new Clauses; new

Schedules; remaining proceedings on the Bill;.

(4)
the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a

conclusion at 5.00 pm on Tuesday 25 March.



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