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Growth and Infrastructure Bill

REVISED

MARSHALLED LIST OF MOTIONS AND AMENDMENTS TO BE MOVED ON

CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS INSISTENCE AND AMENDMENTS TO

WORDS SO RESTORED TO THE BILL

[The page and line references are to HL Bill 72, the bill as first printed for the Lords.]

MOTION A revised

LORDS AMENDMENT 25

Clause 27

25

Leave out Clause 27

 

COMMONS DISAGREEMENT AND REASON

 

The Commons disagree to Lords Amendment No. 25 for the following Reason—

25A

Because the new status of employee shareholder should be made available.

 

LORDS INSISTENCE AND REASON

 

The Lords insist on their Amendment No. 25 for the following Reason—

25B

Because it is inappropriate for employees to be exempted from statutory employment rights

 

in this manner.

 

COMMONS INSISTENCE AND AMENDMENTS TO WORDS SO RESTORED TO THE BILL

 

The Commons insist on their disagreement to Lords Amendment No. 25 but propose the

 

following amendments to the words restored to the Bill by that disagreement—

25C

Page 34, line 13, after “£2,000,” insert—

 
 
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“(ca)    

the company gives the individual a written statement of the

 

particulars of the status of employee shareholder and of the

 

rights which attach to the shares referred to in paragraph (b)

 

(“the employee shares”) (see subsection (4A)),”

25D

Page 34, line 38, at end insert—

 

“(4A)    

The statement referred to in subsection (1)(ca) must—

 

(a)    

state that, as an employee shareholder, the individual would not

 

have the rights specified in subsection (2),

 

(b)    

specify the notice periods that would apply in the individual’s case

 

as a result of subsections (3) and (4),

 

(c)    

state whether any voting rights attach to the employee shares,

 

(d)    

state whether the employee shares carry any rights to dividends,

 

(e)    

state whether the employee shares would, if the company were

 

wound up, confer any rights to participate in the distribution of any

 

surplus assets,

 

(f)    

if the company has more than one class of shares and any of the

 

rights referred to in paragraphs (c) to (e) attach to the employee

 

shares, explain how those rights differ from the equivalent rights

 

that attach to the shares in the largest class (or next largest class if

 

the class which includes the employee shares is the largest),

 

(g)    

state whether the employee shares are redeemable and, if they are,

 

at whose option,

 

(h)    

state whether there are any restrictions on the transferability of the

 

employee shares and, if there are, what those restrictions are,

 

(i)    

state whether any of the requirements of sections 561 and 562 of the

 

Companies Act 2006 are excluded in the case of the employee

 

shares (existing shareholders’ right of pre-emption), and

 

(j)    

state whether the employee shares are subject to drag-along rights

 

or tag-along rights and, if they are, explain the effect of the shares

 

being so subject.”

25E

Page 34, line 38, at end insert—

 

“( )    

Where a company makes an offer to an individual for the individual to

 

become an employee shareholder, an acceptance by the individual of the

 

offer is of no effect unless seven days have passed since the day on which

 

the offer was made.”

25F

Page 35, line 23, at end insert—

 

    

““drag-along rights”, in relation to shares in a company, means the right of

 

the holders of a majority of the shares, where they are selling their shares,

 

to require the holders of the minority to sell theirs;””

25G

Page 35, line 25, at end insert—

 

    

““tag-along rights”, in relation to shares in a company, means the right of

 

the holders of a minority of the shares to sell their shares, where the holders

 

of the majority are selling theirs, on the same terms as those on which the

 

holders of the majority are doing so”

 
 

 
 

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A

 

rev

 

Baroness Hanham to move, That this House do not insist on its Amendment 25,

 

to which the Commons have disagreed for their Reason 25A, do agree with the

 

Commons in their Amendments 25C, 25D, 25F and 25G to the words restored to

 

the Bill by that disagreement, and do disagree with the Commons in their

 

Amendment 25E to the words so restored but do propose the following Amend­

 

ments in lieu—

25H rev

Page 34, line 38, at end insert—

 

“( )    

Agreement between a company and an individual that the

 

individual is to become an employee shareholder is of no effect

 

unless, before the agreement is made—

 

(a)    

the individual, having been given the statement referred to

 

in subsection (1)(ca), receives advice from a relevant

 

independent adviser as to the terms and effect of the

 

proposed agreement, and

 

(b)    

seven days have passed since the day on which the

 

individual receives the advice.

 

( )    

Any reasonable costs incurred by the individual in obtaining the

 

advice (whether or not the individual becomes an employee

 

shareholder) which would, but for this subsection, have to be met

 

by the individual are instead to be met by the company.”

25J

Page 35, line 25, at end insert—

 

““relevant independent adviser” has the meaning that it has

 

for the purposes of section 203(3)(c);”

 

A1

 

Lord Pannick to move, as an amendment to Motion A rev, leave out from

 

“House” to end and insert “do insist on their Amendment 25 to which the Com­

 

mons have disagreed and do disagree with the Commons in their Amendments

 

25C to 25G in lieu thereof”

 

A2

 

Lord Lea of Crondall to move, as an amendment to Motion A rev, at end insert—

25KParliamentary Star

Page 35, line 28, at end insert—

 

“( )    

For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this section shall create a

 

category of job vacancy which is solely an “employee shareholder

 

job vacancy”.”

 
 

 
 

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