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Amendment Paper as at
Monday 23rd January 2006

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE


GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL

NOTE

     The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the House
[9th January 2006].

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

59

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     5,     leave out 'Assembly' and insert 'Senedd'.

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

60

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     5,     leave out 'National Assembly for Wales' and insert 'Senedd'.

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

61

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     7,     leave out 'Assembly' and insert 'Senedd'.

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

62

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     8,     leave out first 'Assembly' and insert 'Senedd'.

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

96

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     8,     leave out second 'Assembly' and insert 'Senedd'.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

161

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     9,     at end insert 'following resolutions of each House of Parliament, both prior to and after the enactment of each such measure'.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
Mr David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

48

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     9,     at end insert—

    '(2A)   No Assembly Measure may be introduced unless a majority of voters in a referendum vote in favour of Assembly Measure provisions coming into force.'.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

162

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     10,     leave out subsection (3).

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

63

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     10,     leave out 'Assembly' and insert 'Senedd'.

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

64

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     11,     leave out 'Assembly' and insert 'Senedd'.

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

65

Clause     92,     page     50,     line     12,     leave out 'Assembly' and insert 'Senedd'.


   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

107

Clause     93,     page     50,     line     21,     leave out from 'competence' to end of line 4 on page 51 and insert 'unless it relates to one or more of the reserved matters specified in Schedule [Reserved matters].'.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

163

Clause     93,     page     50,     line     31,     leave out from '(4)' to 'or' in line 32.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

164

Clause     93,     page     50,     line     38,     leave out 'England and'.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

165

Clause     93,     page     51,     line     1,     leave out subsection (7).


   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Hywel Williams
Adam Price

26

Schedule     5,     page     108,     line     30,     at end insert—

      'Field 5A: energy'.

   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Hywel Williams
Adam Price

25

Schedule     5,     page     109,     line     39,     at end insert—

      'Field 13A: police, probation, and prison service'.

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

108

Page     108,     line     22,     leave out Schedule 5.


   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

166

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     9,     leave out 'to add a new field or'.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

167

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     11,     leave out subsection (2).

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

168

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     21,     leave out subsection (4).

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

180

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     26,     after 'Assembly', insert 'in which the number of Assembly members voting in favour of it is not less than two thirds of the total number of Assembly seats'.

   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Hywel Williams
Adam Price

154

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     28,     after 'approved', insert '(i)'.

   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Hywel Williams
Adam Price

155

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     29,     at end insert 'or

      (ii) has been laid before each House of Parliament and has been approved by a resolution of the House of Commons, but has been rejected by the House of Lords.

    (5A)   If subsection (5)(b)(ii) applies, the Order in Council shall not take affect until one year has elapsed since the date on which the House of Commons came to the resolution.'.

   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Hywel Williams
Adam Price

27

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     29,     at end insert—

    '(5A)   In the event of approval of a draft statutory instrument by the Assembly, as specified in subsection (5)(a), but there not being within 60 days of that approval, an approval by a resolution of each House of Parliament as specified in subsection (5)(b), subsection (5) shall cease to have effect in the case of that draft statutory instrument, and the procedure specified in subsection (5B) will then apply to that draft statutory instrument.

    (5B)   The procedure which will apply in cases specified in subsection (5A) will be that no recommendation is to be made to Her Majesty in Council to make an Order in Council under this section unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the Order in Council—

      (a) has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly, and

      (b) the resolution of the Assembly is passed on a vote in which the number of Assembly members voting in favour of it is not less than two-thirds of the total number of Assembly seats.'.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

187

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     29,     at end insert—

    '(5A)   Any draft of an Order in Council laid before Parliament under this section must be accompanied by—

      (a) a detailed memorandum setting out the scope of the proposal, its practical effects on Wales and the legislative authority that would pass to the National Assembly, and

      (b) a draft of the proposed Assembly Measure.

    (5B)   Before an Order in Council is subject to a resolution of both Houses of Parliament, the Secretary of State must make a motion to refer the draft of the Order in Council, along with the draft Assembly Measure, to the Welsh Grand Committee for consideration.

    (5C)   A report of the debate in the Welsh Grand Committee on the draft Order in Council and Assembly Measure must have been available to both Houses of Parliament for a period of not less than 60 days before any Order in Council is made under this section.'.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

211

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     29,     at end insert—

    '(5A)   But subsection (5) is not satisfied unless the resolution of the Assembly is passed on a vote in which the number of Assembly members voting in favour of it is not less than two-thirds of the total number of Assembly seats.'.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

212

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     29,     at end insert—

    '(5A)   But subsection (5) is not satisfied unless, before the draft of the statutory instrument containing the Order in Council has been approved by a resolution of the House of Commons

      (a) the Welsh Grand Committee has debated the draft, and

      (b) the Welsh Affairs Committee has reported to the effect that it approves the draft.'.

   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Adam Price
Hywel Williams
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell

122

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     38,     leave out 'either'.

   

Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Hywel Williams
Adam Price
Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell

123

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     39,     leave out from 'Parliament' to end of line 1 on page 52.

   

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Mr Dominic Grieve
David Mundell
Mr Patrick McLoughlin

181

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     39,     leave out from 'Parliament' to end of line 41.

   

Lembit Öpik
Mr Roger Williams
Mark Williams
Jenny Willott

53

Clause     94,     page     51,     line     40,     at beginning insert 'if subsection (7A) applies,'.

 
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