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      (2)  

The repeal made by sub-paragraph (1) is to have no effect in relation to any

 

scheme still in existence that was established, and is being carried on, in

 

reliance on the power conferred by section 20 of the Mining Industry Act

 

1926.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment repeals administrative arrangements in the Mining Industry Act 1920 which are

 

no longer needed in relation to the mining industries today, and an unnecessary provision

 

permitting profit-sharing by coal mining companies in the Mining Industry Act 1926. The repeals

 

do not affect mining rights.

 

Tom Brake

 

Oliver Heald

 

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Schedule  18,  page  159,  line  32,  at end insert—

 

Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12)

 

            

The Merchant Shipping Act 1988 is repealed.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment repeals the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 in the United Kingdom. The only

 

operative provision is section 37. Section 37 provides for the disapplication of the requirements of

 

section 34 of the Coast Protection Act 1949, which has been repealed.

 

Tom Brake

 

Oliver Heald

 

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Schedule  18,  page  162,  line  2,  at end insert—

 

‘          

The Milk (Cessation of Production) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/

 

958 (N.I. 9)) is revoked.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment revokes the Milk (Cessation of Production) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985. All

 

schemes made under this Order were revoked in 2007, and it is not intended to make any further

 

schemes under it. The underlying European milk quota system is intended to cease with effect from

 

31 March 2015.

 

Mr William Cash

 

Mr Bernard Jenkin

 

Thomas Docherty

 

Oliver Heald

 

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Schedule  18,  page  162,  line  22,  at end insert—

 

‘Part 7A

 

Civil Law

 

Defamation Act 1996 (c.31)

 

34A      

Omit section 13 of the Defamation Act 1996 (which allows an individual

 

litigant in defamation cases to waive the ban in Article IX of the Bill of Rights

 

on proceedings in Parliament being impeached or questioned in court).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The Joint Committees on Parliamentary Privilege in 1999 and 2013 both recommended the repeal

 

of this hardly-used provision.


 
 

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Oliver Heald

 

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Schedule  18,  page  163,  line  12,  at end insert—

 

‘Part 9

 

HOUSING

 

Housing Act 1988 (c. 50)

 

36  (1)  

Paragraph 3 of Schedule 18 to the Housing Act 1988 (saving provision in

 

respect of repeal of sections 56 to 58 of the Housing Act 1980) ceases to have

 

effect in relation to tenancies of dwelling-houses in England.

 

      (2)  

Accordingly, in that paragraph of that Schedule, after “tenancy” insert “of a

 

dwelling-house in Wales”.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment provides that the saving provision in paragraph 3 of Schedule 18 to the Housing

 

Act 1988 ceases to have effect in relation to tenancies of dwelling-houses in England (and so will

 

continue only for Wales). This is because no assured tenancies under section 56 of the Housing Act

 

1980 remain in existence for England.

 

Philip Davies

 

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Schedule  18,  page  163,  line  12,  at end insert—

 

‘Part 9

 

Communications

 

Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988

 

37         

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 is amended as follows.

 

38         

Section 73 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (Reception and re-

 

transmission of wireless broadcast by cable) is revoked.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

Section 73 was introduced in the 1980s to encourage cable roll-out as a competing platform to

 

terrestrial (analogue) television. This has clearly now been achieved and cable is a highly-effective

 

and well-resourced competitor to Sky and Freeview.

 

 

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.


 
 

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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 Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the

 

Lords) may be programmed.

 


 
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