§ Lords Amendment No. 176: In page 127, line 49, after "15(3)" insert:
§ Ministers to make separate regulations and orders in relation to Northern Ireland. However, in the Bill as drafted there is a specific exemption to that—for the affirmative Resolution orders under Clause 15(3), orders which can take away or modify licensing exemptions which are substantive provisions in the Bill.
833§ The Amendments Nos. 24—subsection (10) of the new Clause E—55—subsection (6) of the new Clause F—and 84, which we have just accepted, have all introduced into the Bill new order-making powers of the same character as that in Clause 15(3), and it is appropriate, therefore, that such orders should be excluded also from the Northern Ireland Ministers' power to make separate provisions. That is the purpose of Lords Amendment No. 176.
§ The Government Amendment corrects a point of syntax. Its intention, by substituting "or" for "and", is to make it quite clear that it is the individual provisions which are referred to in Lords Amendment No. 176 and not the generality of those provisions.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Lords Amendment, as amended, agreed to.