§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move amendment No. 1, in page 4, line 20, leave out "£815" and insert "£1,500".
The First Deputy ChairmanWith this amendment, it will be convenient to take Government amendments Nos. 3, 6 and 8.
§ The Solicitor-GeneralThese amendments are to take account of the regulations approved by the House last year. The regulations are intended to come into force on 6 April. The Bill has, in effect, lapsed the regulations, and without these amendments from 6 April the provisions in the Bill would be lagging behind the new limits.
§ Mr. PercivalWe recognise the need for these amendments and support them.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ The Solicitor-GeneralI beg to move amendment No. 2, in page 4, line 22, leave out first' such ' and insert
' one quarter of the excess or such other'.
The First Deputy ChairmanWith this amendment, it will be convenient to take Government amendment No. 7.
§ The Solicitor-GeneralThis is to provide in the Bill itself what would otherwise fall to be done in regulations made under the Bill. The other elements in the passage are intended, as I said, to come into force on 6 April, but no one would benefit from these provisions until it was possible to make regulations and to introduce an affirmative resolution. Therefore, in order to ensure—as I think everyone agrees—that they should be done at once, subject to the power to amend them subsequently by regulations, the intention is that the provisions should actually be introduced into the Bill itself.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Amendment made: No. 3, in page 4, line 24, leave out '£365' and insert '£1,200'.—[The Solicitor-General.]
§ Clause 4, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Clause 5 ordered to stand part of the Bill.