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Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Monday 22 February 2010

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

907-10 and 923-24

 

 

Consideration of Bill


 

Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill, As Amended

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

4

 

Page  8,  line  34  [Clause  15],  at end insert—

 

‘(e)    

those terms and conditions prohibit P from undertaking restricted

 

duties.’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

5

 

Page  9,  line  3  [Clause  15],  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

those terms and conditions prohibit P from undertaking restricted

 

duties.’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

6

 

Page  9,  line  16  [Clause  15],  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

those terms and conditions prohibit P from undertaking restricted

 

duties.’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

7

 

Page  9,  line  23  [Clause  15],  at end insert—

 

‘(3)    

The following are restricted duties—

 

(a)    

authorising the expenditure of public funds;

 

(b)    

exercising any power given by or under an Act of Parliament or an Act

 

of the Scottish Parliament;


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 22 February 2010                  

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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill, continued

 
 

(c)    

exercising any function relating to the appraisal, reward, promotion or

 

disciplining of civil servants in any part of the Civil Service (including a

 

part of the Civil Service to which this Act does not apply).’.

 

Duty of Ministers to uphold code and respect impartiality of civil servants

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

NC4

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Ministers of the Crown may not do, or omit to do, anything that might cause a

 

civil servant to act in a way incompatible with the code.

 

(2)    

Ministers must respect the impartiality of civil servants.’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

8

 

Page  33,  line  18  [Clause  59],  leave out subsection (2).

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

9

 

Page  95,  line  15,  leave out Schedule 9.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

10

 

Page  95,  line  21  [Schedule  9],  leave out from ‘procession’ to end of line 18 on page

 

55 and insert ‘or a public assembly that is having the effect of preventing reasonable

 

access to the Houses of Parliament.

 

(2)    

The Speaker of the House of Commons shall decide whether reasonable access to

 

the Houses of Parliament has been prevented.

 

(3)    

If the Speaker has decided under subsection (2) that reasonable access to the

 

Houses of Parliament has been prevented, the senior police officer may, for the

 

purpose of restoring reasonable access to the Houses of Parliament, give

 

directions to any person who is organising or taking part in the public procession

 

or public assembly.

 

(4)    

The directions referred to in subsection (3) must be necessary for the purpose of

 

restoring access to the Houses of Parliament and proportionate to that purpose.’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

11

 

Page  96  [Schedule  9],  leave out lines 15 to 18.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

12

 

Page  96  [Schedule  9],  leave out lines 21 to 39.


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 22 February 2010                  

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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill, continued

 
 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

13

 

Page  96,  line  40  [Schedule  9],  leave out from beginning to end of line 35 on page

 

97 and insert— 

 

‘14ZB

 Special provision for a House or Committee meeting outside Palace

 

of Westminster

 

(1)    

If either House of Parliament, or a committee of either House of

 

Parliament, intends to meet in a building outside the Palace of

 

Westminster, the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory

 

instrument specify that the building shall count as part of the Houses of

 

Parliament for the purposes of section 14ZA on the day or days that the

 

meeting is taking place.

 

(2)    

A statutory instrument containing an order under this section may not be

 

made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved

 

by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

 

    

For the purposes of this section, the Speaker may delegate the matter referred to

 

in section 14ZA(2) to the person who is in the chair of the relevant meeting.’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

14

 

Page  96  [Schedule  9],  leave out lines 1 to 3 and insert—

 

‘(6)    

A statutory instrument containing an order under this section must be approved

 

by both Houses of Parliament.’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

15

 

Page  96  [Schedule  9],  leave out lines 37 to 39 and insert—

 

‘(5)    

A statutory instrument containing an order under this section must be approved

 

by both Houses of Parliament.’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

16

 

Page  97  [Schedule  9],  leave out lines 31 to 33 and insert—

 

‘(9)    

A statutory instrument containing an order under this section must be approved

 

by both Houses of Parliament.’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

17

 

Page  95  [Schedule  9],  leave out lines 40 and 41.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

18

 

Page  97  [Schedule  9],  leave out lines 29 and 30.


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 22 February 2010                  

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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill, continued

 
 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

19

 

Page  96,  line  27  [Schedule  9],  leave out ‘300’ and insert ‘250’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

20

 

Page  97,  line  1  [Schedule  9],  leave out ‘300’ and insert ‘250’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

21

 

Page  97,  line  19  [Schedule  9],  leave out from ‘any’ to ‘used’ in line 20 and insert

 

‘day on which the specified building is’.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

22

 

Page  97  [Schedule  9],  leave out line 23.

 

David Howarth

 

Mr David Heath

 

23

 

Page  98,  line  4  [Schedule  9],  leave out paragraph 5.

 


 
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