SECTION THREE—MINOR AND TECHNICAL
AMENDMENTS
OVERVIEW AND
HANDLING
63. As I mentioned in the opening section of
this paper, there are further substantive amendments I wish to
make to this Bill. but since they deal with provisions which this
Committee has not discussed, I am not seeking to table them to
this Committee.
64. There are however a number of technical amendments
which if included in the Bill we return to the House, would assist
them with their further scrutiny. These amendments are technical
and simply tidy up the Bill, or are minor and deliver matters
consequential to the Concordat, or the transfer of functions process.
It is these amendments which are set out in this section of this
paper.
65. I propose that since all the amendments in
this section are purely technical, or minor and introduce no new
principle to the Bill, these are added to the Bill without any
debate. A full list of the amendments is attached at Annex A,
with those which relate to the concordat shown separately and
I can assure the Committee that none of them make any substantive
change to the principles in the Bill.
[June 2004: To note that additional consequential
amendments to those listed in Annex A were tabled before the Select
Committee in addition to those in the Annex. To note also that
some of the amendments in Annex A are still in preparation and
will now be moved in the Committee of the Whole House]
May 2004
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