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Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 1st March 2005
379

Constitutional Reform Bill–[ [], continued

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  242

Clause  71,  page  31,  line  23,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  598

Clause  71,  page  31,  line  24,  leave out paragraph (a) and insert—

‘(a)
accept the selection;’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  243

Clause  71,  page  31,  line  29,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  599

Clause  71,  page  31,  line  29,  leave out from ‘must’ to ‘under’ in line 30 and insert

‘accept the selection, unless subsection (5) applies and he accepts a selection’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  244

Clause  71,  page  31,  line  31,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  245

Clause  71,  page  31,  line  32,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  600

Clause  71,  page  31,  line  32,  leave out from ‘may’ to end of line 35 and insert ‘, at

stage 3, accept the selection made at that earlier stage.’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  246

Clause  72,  page  32,  line  2,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  247

Clause  72,  page  32,  line  3,  leave out ‘Minister’s’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’s’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  248

Clause  72,  page  32,  line  5,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  249

Clause  72,  page  32,  line  7,  leave out ‘Minister’s’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’s’.

Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 1st March 2005
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Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  250

Clause  72,  page  32,  line  11,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  251

Clause  73,  page  32,  line  14,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  252

Clause  73,  page  32,  line  17,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  253

Clause  73,  page  32,  line  21,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  254

Clause  73,  page  32,  line  25,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  601

Clause  73,  page  32,  line  28,  leave out ‘67’ and insert ‘(Request for selection (No.

2))’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  602

Clause  74,  page  32,  line  31,  leave out ‘Section 75 applies’ and insert ‘Sections

(Duty to fill vacancies (No. 3)) to 81 apply’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  255

Clause  74,  page  32,  line  38,  leave out ‘Minister’s’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’s’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  603

Clause  74,  page  32,  line  39,  at end insert—

‘(1A)
Any such recommendation or appointment must be made in accordance with

those sections and section (Effect of acceptance of selection).’.

Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 1st March 2005
381

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Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  256

Clause  74,  page  32,  line  40,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  662

Schedule  12,  page  206,  line  26,  leave out ‘Supreme Court’ and insert ‘Senior

Courts’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  562

Schedule  12,  page  207,  line  35,  column 1, after ‘Commissioner’ insert ‘for a

division in England and Wales’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  622

Schedule  12,  page  209,  line  36,  at end insert—

‘Arbitrator
Paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 4 to

the Transport Act 1968 as set out in

Schedule 2 to the Transport Act

1985 (Modifications in Schedule 4

to the Transport Act 1968) Order

1985 (S.I. 1985/1903)

Arbitrator
Paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 4 to

the Transport Act 1968 as set out in

Schedule 2 to the Airports Act 1986

(Modifications in Schedule 4 to the

Transport Act 1968) Order 1986

(S.I. 1986/1801)’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  623

Schedule  12,  page  211,  leave out lines 21 to 26.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  624

Schedule  12,  page  212,  line  5,  at end insert—

‘Arbitrator
Regulation 32(3)(a) of the

Conservation (Natural Habitats,

&c) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/

2716)’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  625

Schedule  12,  page  213,  line  38,  at end insert—

Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 1st March 2005
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‘Member of panel of tribunal
Regulation 7(1)(a) of the Health

chairmen
Service Medicines (Price Control

Appeals) Regulations 2000 (S.I.

2000/124)

Senior tribunal chairman
Regulation 7(1)(b) of the Health

Service Medicines (Price Control

Appeals) Regulations 2000 (S.I.

2000/124)’.

Schedule, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Not selected  604

Page  33,  line  10,  leave out Clause 75.

Clause Disagreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  605

Clause  76,  page  33,  line  34,  leave out from beginning to ‘the’ in line 35 and insert

‘As part of the selection process’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  606

Clause  76,  page  33,  line  39,  leave out subsection (4) and insert—

‘(4)
One person only may be selected for each recommendation or appointment to

which a request relates.

(5)
Subsection (4) applies to selection under this section and to selection under

section 80 or 81.’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  262

Clause  77,  page  34,  line  3,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  263

Clause  77,  page  34,  line  12,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 1st March 2005
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Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  264

Clause  77,  page  34,  line  13,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  265

Clause  77,  page  34,  line  15,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  266

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  23,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  607

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  24,  leave out paragraph (a) and insert—

‘(a)
accept the selection;’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  267

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  27,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  608

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  28,  leave out paragraph (a) and insert—

‘(a)
accept the selection;’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  268

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  33,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  609

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  33,  leave out from ‘must’ to ‘under’ in line 34 and insert

‘accept the selection, unless subsection (5) applies and he accepts a selection’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  269

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  36,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  270

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  37,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  610

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  37,  leave out from ‘may’ to end of line 3 on page 35 and

insert ‘, at stage 3, accept the selection made at that earlier stage.’.

Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 1st March 2005
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Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  611

Clause  78,  page  34,  line  38,  at end insert—

‘( )
Before exercising his powers under this section at any stage in relation to a

selection for an appointment or recommendation, the Lord Chancellor must—

(a)
consult any person whom he is required by any enactment to consult

before making the appointment or recommendation, and

(b)
consult the Scottish Ministers if it appears to him to be an appointment,

or a recommendation for the appointment, of a person to exercise

functions wholly or mainly in Scotland.’

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  271

Clause  79,  page  35,  line  5,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  272

Clause  79,  page  35,  line  6,  leave out ‘Minister’s’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’s’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  273

Clause  79,  page  35,  line  9,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  274

Clause  79,  page  35,  line  11,  leave out ‘Minister’s’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’s’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  275

Clause  79,  page  35,  line  15,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  276

Clause  80,  page  35,  line  18,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  612

Clause  80,  page  35,  line  19,  leave out ‘selection panel’ and insert ‘Commission’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  277

Clause  80,  page  35,  line  21,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 1st March 2005
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Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  278

Clause  80,  page  35,  line  25,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  613

Clause  80,  page  35,  line  28,  at end insert—

‘(3A)
But if the Commission decides that the selection process has not identified a

candidate of sufficient merit for it to make a selection under this section—

(a)
section 81applies;

(b)
subsection (1) does not apply, but subsections (2) and (3) apply to any

selection under section 81.’

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  279

Clause  80,  page  35,  line  29,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  614

Clause  80,  page  35,  line  32,  leave out ‘75’ and insert ‘(Request for selection (No.

3))’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  280

Clause  81,  page  35,  line  34,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  281

Clause  81,  page  35,  line  37,  leave out ‘Minister’ and insert ‘Lord Chancellor’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Not selected  615

Page  36,  line  1,  leave out Clause 82.

Clause Disagreed to.

Mr Christopher Leslie

Agreed to  616

Clause  83,  page  36,  line  17,  leave out ‘75(6)’ and insert ‘(Request for selection