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LORDS REASONS FOR DISAGREEING TO CERTAIN COMMONS AMENDMENTS

to the

Constitutional Reform Bill [HL]

[The page and line references are to Bill 18, the bill as first printed for the Commons.]

Clause 2

COMMONS AMENDMENT NO. 1

1

Leave out Clause 2

 

LORDS DISAGREEMENT AND REASON

 

The Lords disagree to Commons Amendment 1, for the following Reason—

1A

Because the Lord Chancellor should always be a member of the House of Lords.

Clause 3

COMMONS AMENDMENT NO. 2

2

Leave out Clause 3

 

LORDS DISAGREEMENT AND REASON

 

The Lords disagree to Commons Amendment 2, for the following Reason—

2A

Because it is appropriate that the Lord Chancellor should have the legal qualifications

 

proposed by the Lords.

 

Clause 105

COMMONS AMENDMENT NO. 264

264

Page 46, leave out from end of line 17 to “unless” in line 19 and insert “or, if the

 

Lord Chancellor is not a member of that House, by another Minister of the Crown

 

at his request.

 
 
Bill 8953/4

 
 

 

(  2  )

 
 

(4)    

No motion for the presentation of such an address may be made”

 

LORDS DISAGREEMENT AND REASON

 

The Lords disagree to Commons Amendment 264, for the following Reason—

264A

Because this Amendment is consequential on Commons Amendment 1, to which the Lords

 

have disagreed.

 

COMMONS AMENDMENT NO. 265

265

Page 46, line 25, leave out from “and” to end of line 26 and insert “a person making

 

such a motion in the House of Lords shall lay a copy of the report before that House

 

before making the motion.”

 

LORDS DISAGREEMENT AND REASON

 

The Lords disagree to Commons Amendment 265, for the following Reason—

265A

Because this Amendment is consequential on Commons Amendment 1, to which the Lords

 

have disagreed.

Schedule 14

COMMONS AMENDMENT NO. 593

593

Page 221, line 18, at end insert—

 

“Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23)

 

    (1)  

Section 12B of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 as substituted

 

by section 6 of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c. 26) is amended

 

as follows.

 

      (2)  

In subsection (3)(b) at the end insert “or, if the Lord Chancellor is not a

 

member of that House, by another Minister of the Crown at his request.”

 

      (3)  

In subsections (4) and (5) for “Neither the Prime Minister nor the Lord

 

Chancellor may make” substitute “The Prime Minister may not make,

 

and the Lord Chancellor may not make or request the making of,”.

 

      (4)  

In subsection (7) for the words from “and the Lord Chancellor” to the

 

end substitute “and a person making such a motion in the House of

 

Lords shall lay a copy of them before that House before making the

 

motion.””

 

LORDS DISAGREEMENT AND REASON

 

The Lords disagree to Commons Amendment 593, for the following Reason—

593A

Because this Amendment is consequential on Commons Amendment 1, to which the Lords

 

have disagreed.


 
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