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MARSHALLED
LIST OF AMENDMENTS
TO BE MOVED
ON THIRD READING

The amendments have been marshalled in accordance with the Instruction of 21st July 2008, as follows—

Clauses 198 to 221
Schedule 12
Clauses 222 and 223
Schedule 13
Clauses 224 to 227

[Amendments marked * are new or have been altered]

Clause 10

LORD HUNT OF KINGS HEATH

LORD PANNICK

1

Page 5, line 34, at end insert—

“( ) Where the Minister considers that the changes proposed do not warrant a full public consultation under subsection (1)(g), the Minister must publish a copy of the proposal on the website of the relevant Government department or make it otherwise publicly accessible.”

After Clause 11

BARONESS ROYALL OF BLAISDON

LORD HUNT OF KINGS HEATH

LORD NORTON OF LOUTH

LORD TAYLOR OF HOLBEACH

2

Insert the following new Clause—

“Time limit on scheduled bodies

Any entry in Schedules 1 to 5 ceases to have effect at the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which it came into force (without affecting any order already made by virtue of that entry).”

Clause 13

LORD TAYLOR OF HOLBEACH

3

Page 8, line 27, after “board” insert “for an area”

Clause 24

LORD TAYLOR OF HOLBEACH

4

Page 14, line 35, after “12” insert “or 13”

Clause 25

LORD WHITTY

5

Page 15, line 28, at end insert—

“( ) In relation to a transfer to another public body or to any other body of functions, duties or powers under section 1 or 5, or to a merger (where such transfers are involved), under section 2, the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/246) shall apply to a transfer which relates to rights or liabilities under a contract of employment whether or not the transfer would, apart from this subsection, be a relevant transfer for the purposes of those regulations.

( ) In the case of an employee of a body whose functions, duties or powers are transferred or merged under section 1, 2 or 5—

(a) a period of employment with the transferor is to be treated as a period of employment with the recipient organisation;

(b) the transfer to the recipient organisation is not to be treated as a break in service.”

Schedule 1

BARONESS ROYALL OF BLAISDON

LORD HUNT OF KINGS HEATH

6

Page 19, line 36, at end insert—

“4 The explanatory document required under section 11(2) in respect of the regional development agencies must include—

(a) the wording of the question that was asked about the principle of abolishing regional development agencies;

(b) a summary of representations received in respect of the principle of abolishing regional development agencies.”

Schedule 5

BARONESS DEECH

LORD HARRIES OF PENTREGARTH

LORD WALTON OF DETCHANT

BARONESS WARWICK OF UNDERCLIFFE

7

Page 22, line 11, at end insert—

“2 An order may not be made in respect of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority or the Human Tissue Authority unless an independent assessment indicates that making such an order under section 5(1) would increase the cost-effectiveness of the functions exercised by that Authority.”

LORD HARRIES OF PENTREGARTH

BARONESS DEECH

LORD WALTON OF DETCHANT

BARONESS WARWICK OF UNDERCLIFFE

8

Page 22, line 11, at end insert—

“2 An order may not be made in respect of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority or the Human Tissue Authority unless the impact assessment and consultation indicates that making such an order under section 5(1) would increase the cost-effectiveness of the functions exercised by that Authority.”

BARONESS DEECH

LORD HARRIES OF PENTREGARTH

LORD WILLIS OF KNARESBOROUGH

BARONESS WARWICK OF UNDERCLIFFE

9

Page 22, line 11, at end insert—

“2 Before an order is made under section 5(1) to modify or transfer any of the functions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority or the Human Tissue Authority—

(a) the Minister must have established a new independent health research agency to be responsible for the regulation of health research, which will assume any of the functions currently undertaken by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Tissue Authority; and

(b) that agency must have a separate ethics committee to undertake the ethical consideration functions transferred from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Tissue Authority.”

In the Title

LORD TAYLOR OF HOLBEACH

10

Line 2, at end insert “and other”