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Wednesday 15 September 2010

 

Consideration of Bill

 

Identity Documents Bill


 

New Clauses

 

Identity documents for transgendered persons

 

Julie Hilling

 

Meg Hillier

 

NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

This section applies to a person who—

 

(a)    

is a transgendered person,

 

(b)    

has not been issued with a gender recognition certificate, and

 

(c)    

is living in both the birth gender and the acquired gender.

 

(2)    

The Secretary of State must make arrangements for the issue to any person falling

 

within subsection (1), on the application of that person, of two copies of a

 

passport or some other form of identity document of comparable standing, one in

 

the birth gender of the person and the other in the acquired gender.

 

(3)    

The form of the document referred to in subsection (2) shall be prescribed in

 

regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument, which shall be

 

subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

 

(4)    

Any ID card issued to a person falling within subsection (1) shall

 

(notwithstanding section 2(2)) remain valid until it expires, or until the

 

requirement in subsection (2) is satisfied, whichever is the earlier, and section

 

2(3) shall not apply in relation to any cardholder who is a person falling within

 

subsection (1).’.

 



 
 

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Passport fees for holders of ID cards

 

Meg Hillier

 

Catherine McKinnell

 

Julie Hilling

 

Grahame M. Morris

 

Shabana Mahmood

 

Steve McCabe

 

Total signatories: 7

 

NC2

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

This section applies to a person (“P”) who—

 

(a)    

held a valid ID card on the day on which this Act was passed, and

 

(b)    

paid a fee for the card.

 

(2)    

On the first occasion after the passing of this Act on which P applies for a

 

passport, the fee charged for the passport shall be reduced by £30.’.

 


 

Airport security

 

Catherine McKinnell

 

Meg Hillier

 

NC3

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘The Secretary of State must take such steps as the Secretary of State considers

 

appropriate to ensure the completion of work undertaken at Manchester Airport

 

and London City Airport before the passing of this Act on the assessment of the

 

benefits for airport security of secure government identity documents.’.

 


 

Transfer of information from National Identity Register to Identity and Passport Service

 

Meg Hillier

 

Catherine McKinnell

 

Julie Hilling

 

Grahame M. Morris

 

Shabana Mahmood

 

Steve McCabe

 

Total signatories: 7

 

NC4

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘The Secretary of State must ensure that any information recorded in the National

 

Identity Register which—

 

(a)    

relates to a person (“P”) who has indicated that P wishes to retain P’s

 

identity card until its expiry date, and


 
 

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(b)    

is relevant to an application by P for a passport,

 

is transferred to the Identity and Passport Service.’.

 


 

Secretary Theresa May

 

1

 

Page  1,  line  9  [Clause  1],  leave out ‘(with consequential amendments) by this Act’

 

and insert ‘by this Act (with consequential amendments and, in the case of section 38, also

 

with minor amendments)’.

 

Meg Hillier

 

Catherine McKinnell

 

Julie Hilling

 

Grahame M. Morris

 

Shabana Mahmood

 

Steve McCabe

 

Total signatories: 7

 

5

 

Page  1,  line  16  [Clause  2],  leave out from ‘day’ to end of line 10 on page 3 and

 

insert ‘will remain valid until their expiry date.’.

 


 

Julie Hilling

 

Meg Hillier

 

7

 

Page  2,  line  12  [Clause  2],  at end insert—

 

‘(7)    

This section is subject to section [Identity documents for transgendered

 

persons].’.

 

Meg Hillier

 

Catherine McKinnell

 

Julie Hilling

 

Grahame M. Morris

 

Shabana Mahmood

 

Steve McCabe

 

Total signatories: 7

 

6

 

Page  2,  line  13,  leave out Clause 3.

 

Steve McCabe

 

Bridget Phillipson

 

8

 

Parliamentary Star    

Page  2,  line  16  [Clause  3],  at end insert—

 

‘(2)    

The Secretary of State must, before the end of the period of four months

 

beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, present to Parliament a report

 

identifying the information destroyed in accordance with subsection (1).’.

 



 
 

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Secretary Theresa May

 

2

 

Page  5,  line  24  [Clause  10],  leave out subsections (1) to (3) and insert—

 

‘(1)    

This section applies where it appears to the Secretary of State that a person within

 

subsection (4) may have information that could be used—

 

(a)    

for verifying information provided to the Secretary of State for the

 

purposes of, or in connection with, an application for the issue of a

 

passport, or

 

(b)    

for determining whether to withdraw an individual’s passport.

 

(2)    

For the purpose of making the verification or determination mentioned in

 

subsection (1)(a) or (b), the Secretary of State may require the person within

 

subsection (4) to provide the Secretary of State with the information by a date

 

specified in the requirement.’.

 


 

Secretary Theresa May

 

3

 

Page  6,  line  2  [Clause  10],  leave out ‘of relevant information to the Secretary of

 

State’ and insert ‘to the Secretary of State of information that could be used as mentioned

 

in subsection (1)(a) or (b)’.

 

Secretary Theresa May

 

4

 

Page  6,  line  16  [Clause  10],  at end insert—

 

‘(8A)    

In a case within subsection (1)(a) where a passport is issued, information

 

provided in accordance with this section must be destroyed no later than 28 days

 

after the passport is issued.

 

(8B)    

In a case within subsection (1)(b) where a passport is not withdrawn, information

 

provided in accordance with this section must be destroyed no later than 28 days

 

after the determination is made not to withdraw the passport.

 

(8C)    

Subsections (8A) and (8B) do not apply in a case where it appears to the Secretary

 

of State to be desirable to retain the information for the purpose of—

 

(a)    

preventing or detecting crime, or

 

(b)    

apprehending or prosecuting offenders.’.

 

 

Order of the House [9 June 2010]

 

That the following provisions shall apply to the Identity Documents 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 Thursday 8 July 2010.

 

3.    

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

 

which it meets.


 
 

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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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