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Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Wednesday 10 November 2010

 

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

 

153, 161, 279-80, 1131 and 1159-60

 

Committee of the whole House


 

Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

20

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  13,  at end insert—

 

‘(4A)    

If the polling day for a subsequent election was appointed under subsections (3)

 

or (4), a Boundary Commission must submit a report 18 months before the date

 

of next appointed general election, notwithstanding section 3 of the

 

Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

21

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  2,  leave out ‘early’ and insert ‘immediate’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

22

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  12,  leave out ‘14’ and insert ‘ten working’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

23

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  17,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

The Speaker shall issue a certificate under subsection (1) or (2) within 24 hours

 

of the relevant conditions being met under subsection (1) or (2).’.


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 10 November 2010                  

1162

 

Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill, continued

 
 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

24

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  21,  leave out from ‘be’ to end of line 24 and insert ‘the sixth

 

Thursday after the day on which the Speaker issues a certificate under subsection (1) or

 

(2)’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

25

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  24,  at end add—

 

‘(6A)    

In this section a “motion of no confidence in Her Majesty’s Government” shall

 

be—

 

(a)    

in the terms “This House has no confidence in Her Majesty’s

 

Government” or

 

(b)    

in the terms “This House has no confidence in the Prime Minister”.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

26

 

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  26,  leave out ‘17th’ and insert ‘25th’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

27

 

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  36,  at end insert ‘within 15 working days of the polling day’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

28

 

Clause  4,  page  3,  line  12,  leave out subsection (1).

 

Prorogation of Parliament

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

NC2

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Parliament can only be prorogued in accordance with this section.

 

(2)    

If the House of Commons resolves that Parliament should be prorogued,

 

Parliament shall be prorogued at that time.

 

(3)    

The Speaker of the House of Commons shall not make such a declaration unless

 

the House of Commons has passed a resolution directing him to do so on or before

 

a specified date and time.

 

(4)    

Where Parliament is prorogued under subsection (2) above, the Speaker may by

 

declaration prorogue it to an earlier or later day.


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 10 November 2010                  

1163

 

Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill, continued

 
 

(5)    

The Prorogation Act 1867 is repealed.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

29

 

Schedule,  page  4,  line  4,  leave out ‘“or dissolve”’ and insert ‘“prorogue or dissolve

 

Parliaments nor”.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

30

 

Schedule,  page  4,  line  8,  leave out from ‘omit’ to end of line 9 and insert ‘unless it

 

should be sooner prorogued or dissolved by the Crown, anything in the Succession to the

 

Crown Act 1707 in any way notwithstanding.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

31

 

Schedule,  page  4,  line  6,  at end insert—

 

‘Meeting of Parliament Act 1797 (c. 127)

 

2A         

The Meeting of Parliament Act 1797 is repealed.’.

 


 
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