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House of Commons

Tuesday 4th December 2007

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Other Amendments not tabled within the required notice period are marked thus

Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary provisions) Bill

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Resolution of the Programming Sub-Committee

The Programming Sub-Committee appointed by the Speaker in respect of the Bill

agreed the following Resolution at its meeting on Monday 3rd December (Standing Order

No. 83C):

That—

(1)	the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday

4th December) meet—

(a)	at 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 4th December;

(b)	at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 6th December;

(c)	at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 11th December;

(2)	the Committee shall hear oral evidence in accordance with the following

Table:

TABLE

	Date	Time	Witness
	Tuesday 4th December	Until no later than 1.00 p.m.	Department for Transport

(3)	the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a

conclusion at 7.00 p.m. on Tuesday 11th December.

Mr Tom Harris has given notice of his intention to move a motion in the terms of the

Resolution of the Programming Sub-Committee [Standing Order No. 83C(9)].

Mr Tom Harris

That subject to the discretion of the Chairman, any written evidence received by the

Committee shall be reported to the House for publication.

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Mr Tom Harris

That, at this and any subsequent meeting at which oral evidence is to be heard, the

Committee shall sit in private until the witnesses are admitted.

Stephen Hammond

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Clause  1,  page  1,  line  5,  at end add—

‘(3)	In subsection (1) “railway services” refer only to those services that both

originate and terminate in the United Kingdom.’.

Stephen Hammond

2

Clause  2,  page  1,  leave out lines 7 to 9 and insert—

‘Section 17 of the 1996 Act (access agreements) is repealed.’.

Stephen Hammond

3

Clause  3,  page  1,  leave out lines 11 to 16 and insert—

  ‘Section 21 of the 1996 Act (duties of the Office of Rail Regulation as to

the exercise of regulatory functions) is repealed.’.

Stephen Hammond

4

Clause  4,  page  2,  line  7,  after ‘be’, insert ‘consistent with the relevant terms of any

license fee payable by other operators of railway assets under section 8 of the Railways

Act 1993, and’.

Stephen Hammond

5

Page  2,  line  29,  leave out Clause 5.

Public Bill Committee: 4th December 2007

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Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary provisions) Bill, continued

Order of the House [20th november 2007]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link

(Supplementary Provisions) Bill:

Committal

1.	The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.

Proceedings in Public Bill Committee

2.	Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 11th December 2007.

3.	The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

which it meets.

Consideration and Third Reading

4.	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.

5.	Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

6.	Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

Other proceedings

7.	Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on

consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the

Lords) may be programmed.

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Revised 4 December 2007