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House of Commons

 
 

Tuesday 13th December 2005

 

Standing Committee Proceedings

 

Standing Committee E

 

Health Bill


 

[Fifth and Sixth Sittings]


 

Clause 4 Agreed to.

 


 

Steve Webb

 

Stephen Williams

 

Withdrawn  52

 

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  29,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Dr Andrew Murrison

 

Mr Crispin Blunt

 

Withdrawn  9

 

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  30,  after ‘vehicles’, insert ‘used for the carriage of the public

 

for payment.’.

 

Caroline Flint

 

Agreed to  72

 

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  36,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

The power to make regulations under this section is not exercisable in relation

 

to—

 

(a)    

any ship or hovercraft in relation to which regulations could be made

 

under section 85 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21) (safety and

 

health on ships), including that section as applied by any Order in

 

Council under section 1(1)(h) of the Hovercraft Act 1968 (c. 59), or

 

(b)    

persons on any such ship or hovercraft.

 

( )    

In section 85 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21), at the end add—

 

“(8)    

Safety regulations which make provision in respect of the prohibition of

 

smoking on any ship (“the smoking provisions”) may include

 

provision—

 

(a)    

for the appointment by the Secretary of State of persons to

 

enforce the smoking provisions (whether in respect of ships

 

generally or for any particular case or purpose), and for the

 

removal of any person so appointed,


 
 

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(b)    

for such persons (if they are not surveyors of ships appointed

 

under section 256) to have the powers of such surveyors for the

 

purposes of their enforcement functions,

 

(c)    

for any such persons to have, for the purposes of their

 

enforcement functions, powers corresponding to those which

 

authorised officers have under paragraphs 2(b) to (e), 3 and 4, as

 

read with paragraphs 5 and 9, of Schedule 2 to the Health Act

 

2006 (which confers powers of entry, etc., on authorised officers

 

of enforcement authorities in relation to the enforcement of the

 

provisions of that Act in relation to smoking),

 

(d)    

in relation to an offence of smoking in a place where smoking is

 

prohibited under the smoking provisions, for purposes

 

corresponding to those of section 8 of and Schedule 1 to the

 

Health Act 2006 (which provide for the giving by authorised

 

officers of penalty notices in respect of such an offence).

 

    

In this subsection, “smoking” has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the

 

Health Act 2006.” ’.

 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Dr Andrew Murrison

 

Mr Crispin Blunt

 

Not called  8

 

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  37,  after second ‘vehicle’, insert ‘used for the transport of the

 

public.’.

 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Dr Andrew Murrison

 

Mr Crispin Blunt

 

Not called  78

 

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  37,  after second ‘vehicle’, insert ‘used for the carriage of

 

children, the public and for persons in the course of their employment’.

 

Steve Webb

 

Stephen Williams

 

Not called  51

 

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  37,  after ‘train’, insert ‘bus, coach’.

 

Steve Webb

 

Stephen Williams

 

Withdrawn  53

 

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  38,  at end add­—

 

‘(4)    

Regulations shall provide for prescribed vehicles to be smoke-free wherever a

 

journey does not end under the jurisdiction of the same national authority as the

 

national authority in which it began.’.

 

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

 


 

Steve Webb

 

Stephen Williams

 

Withdrawn  49

 

Clause  6,  page  4,  line  22,  leave out from ‘he’ to end of line 30 and insert ‘took all


 
 

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reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence not to commit the offence’.

 

Steve Webb

 

Stephen Williams

 

Not called  50

 

Clause  6,  page  4,  line  31,  leave out subsection (7).

 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Dr Andrew Murrison

 

Mr Crispin Blunt

 

Withdrawn  62

 

Clause  6,  page  4,  line  36,  leave out from ‘exceeding’ to end of line 37 and insert

 

‘level 1 on the standard scale’.

 

Clause Agreed to.

 


 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Dr Andrew Murrison

 

Mr Crispin Blunt

 

Not called  63

 

Clause  7,  page  5,  line  14,  leave out from ‘exceeding’ to end of line 15 and insert

 

‘level 1 on the standard scale’.

 

Clause Agreed to.

 

Clause 8 Agreed to.

 

Schedule 1 Agreed to.

 


 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Dr Andrew Murrison

 

Mr Crispin Blunt

 

Not called  64

 

Clause  9,  page  6,  line  6,  leave out from ‘exceeding’ to end of line 7 and insert ‘level

 

1 on the standard scale’.

 

Clause Agreed to.

 


 

Steve Webb

 

Stephen Williams

 

Negatived on division  76

 

Clause  10,  page  6,  line  15,  at end insert—

 

‘( )    

In making regulations for the purposes of this Part, the appropriate national

 

authority shall consult with organisations representing those enforcing this

 

legislation.’.


 
 

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Clause Agreed to.

 

Schedule 2 Agreed to.

 

Clause 11 Agreed to.

 


 

Caroline Flint

 

Agreed to  73

 

Clause  12,  page  7,  line  18,  after ‘tent,’ insert ‘and (if not a ship within the meaning

 

of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21))’.

 

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

 


 

New ClauseS relating to part 1

 

Voluntary prohibition

 

Mr Andrew Lansley

 

Dr Andrew Murrison

 

Mr Crispin Blunt

 

Not called  NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘The appropriate national authority may, by regulations, provide that

 

prohibition of smoking under Part 1 should not come into effect in

 

respect of classes of premises that have implemented a voluntary

 

prohibition of smoking that has ensured that:—

 

(e)    

where the premises is open to the public those who do not wish

 

to be exposed to smoke are not so exposed;

 

(f)    

smoking is not permitted in places to which children have access;

 

and

 

(g)    

smoking is not permitted in areas of premises to which only

 

employees have access.’.

 


 

Age of sale

 

Sir George Young

 

Question proposed, That the Clause be read a second time  NC2

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘The appropriate national authority may issue regulations modifying the Children

 

and Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) Act 1991 so as to substitute for the

 

age specified in any of its provisions such other higher age or ages as they

 

consider appropriate.’.


 
 

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Health Bill, continued

 
 

[Adjourned till Thursday at 9.00 a.m.


 
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