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Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 30th January 2006  

326

 

Government of Wales Bill, continued

 
 

Reserved bodies

 

3    (1)  

The reservation of any body to which this paragraph applies has effect to

 

reserve—

 

(a)    

its constitution, including its establishment and dissolution, its assets

 

and liabilities and its funding and receipts,

 

(b)    

conferring functions on it or removing functions from it,

 

(c)    

conferring or removing any functions specifically exercisable in

 

relation to it.

 

      (2)  

This paragraph applies to—

 

(a)    

a body reserved by name by Part 2 of this Schedule,

 

(b)    

each of the councils reserved by section C12 of that Part,

 

(c)    

the Commission for Racial Equality, the Equal Opportunities

 

Commission and the National Disability Council.

 

Financial assistance to industry

 

4    (1)  

This Schedule does not reserve giving financial assistance to commercial

 

activities for the purposes of promoting or sustaining economic development

 

or employment.

 

      (2)  

Sub-paragraph (1)—

 

(a)    

does not apply to giving financial assistance to any activities in

 

pursuance of a power exercisable only in relation to activities which

 

are reserved,

 

(b)    

does not apply to Part 1 of this Schedule, except paragraph 9, or to a

 

body to which paragraph 3 of this Part of this Schedule applies,

 

(c)    

is without prejudice to the exceptions from the reservations in sections

 

E2 and E3 of Part 2 of this Schedule.

 

      (3)  

Sub-paragraph (1) does not affect the question whether any matter other than

 

financial assistance to which that sub-paragraph applies is reserved.

 

Interpretation

 

5    (1)  

References in this Schedule to the subject matter of any enactment are to be

 

read as references to the subject matter of that enactment as it has effect on the

 

principal appointed day or, if it ceased to have effect at any time within the

 

period ending with that day and beginning with the day on which this Act is

 

passed, as it had effect immediately before that time.

 

      (2)  

Subordinate legislation under section 129(1) may, in relation to the operation

 

of this Schedule at any time before the principal appointed day, modify the

 

references to that day in sub-paragraph (1).’.

 

Bill reported, with amendments.

 


 
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