Amendment Paper as at
Tuesday 13th June 2006

CONSIDERATION OF LORDS AMENDMENTS

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ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION BILL

NOTE

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Programme Motion (No. 2) to be proposed by Bridget Prentice.

Lords Amendment No. 8

   

Bridget Prentice
To move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in their Amendment.

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Lords Amendment No. 73

As Amendments to the Lords Amendment:—   

Mr Simon Hughes

(a)

Line     198,     leave out 'ought reasonably to have known' and insert 'was reckless as to whether or not he knew'.

   

Mr Simon Hughes

(b)

Line     233,     leave out 'ought reasonably to have known' and insert 'was reckless as to whether or not he knew'.

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Lords Amendment No. 6

As Amendments to the Lords Amendment:—   

Mr Oliver Heald
Dr Liam Fox

(a)

Line     28,     leave out from 'above' to end of line 35 and insert—

'(a)	is registered to vote, unless under the provision of subsection (3AA) they decline to be so, and

(b)	has (so far as circumstances permit) an effective opportunity of exercising from time to time as occasion may require the rights conferred on him by this Act in relation to—

(i)	the making and cancellation of appointments of a proxy;

(ii)	voting in person, by post or by proxy.

    (3AA)   A person having a service qualification by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b) of section 14(1) above is entitled to decline to be registered by the appropriate government department if he has registered, or declined to be registered, with his local authority.'.

   

Mr Oliver Heald
Dr Liam Fox

(b)

Line     43,     leave out 'and (3A)' and insert ', (3A) and (3AA)'.

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ORDER OF THE HOUSE [25th OCTOBER]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Electoral Administration Bill:

Committal

    1.   The following shall be committed to a Committee of the whole House—

(a)	Clauses Nos. 9 to 18;

(b)	any new Clauses or new Schedules relating to Part 2 or Part 3 of the Bill;

(c)	any new Clauses or new Schedules relating to the procedure to be followed at an election on the death of a candidate;

(d)	any new Clauses or new Schedules relating to candidates standing in more than one constituency at an election.

    2.   The remainder of the Bill shall be committed to a Standing Committee.

Proceedings in Committee

    3.   Proceedings in Committee of the whole House shall be completed in one day.

    4.   Those Proceedings shall be taken in the order shown in the first column of the following table and shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the times specified in the second column of that table.

Proceedings	Time for conclusion of proceedings
Clauses Nos. 9 to 12, new Clauses relating to Part 2 of the Bill, new Schedules relating to Part 2 of the Bill.	Two and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on the Bill.

Clauses Nos. 13 to 18, new Clauses relating to Part 3 of the Bill, new Schedules relating to Part 3 of the Bill.

Two and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on Clause No. 13.

New Clauses and new Schedules relating to the procedure to be followed at an election on the death of candidate or relating to candidates standing in more than one consituency at an election.

The moment of interruption or one hour after the commencement of proceedings on the first such new Clause, whichever is the later.

    5.   Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to the proceedings in Committee of the whole House.

Proceedings in Standing Committee

    6.   Proceedings in the Standing Committee shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 24th November.

    7.   The Standing Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it meets.

Proceedings after Commmittee

    8.   When the provisions of the Bill considered respectively by the Committee of the whole House and by the Standing Committee have been reported to the House, the Bill shall be proceeded with as if it had been reported as a whole from the Standing Committee.

Consideration and Third Reading

    9.   Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which those proceedings are commenced.

    10.   Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

    11.   Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

Programming of proceedings

    12.   Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments or any further messages from the Lords) may be programmed.

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Prepared 13 Jun 2006