§ Mr. BrittanI beg to move amendment No. 58, in page 8, line 26, at end insert
'after the commencement of this section '.This is a Government amendment to provide for a starting date for the jurisdiction of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. Without the amendment the commission would be able to entertain complaints about programmes broadcast before it began to function. The difficulties to which this could give rise need no explanation. It is therefore proposed that the starting date should be the same date as that on which the commission is empowered to receive and consider complaints. We hope that this date will be 1 April next year.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Mr. BrittanI beg to move amendment No. 59, in page 8, line 28, at beginning insert 'unwarranted'.
Mr. Deputy SpeakerWith this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments Nos. 60 to 62, 64 and 65.
§ Mr. BrittanThese are Government amendments, which have been put forward as a result of the further consideration that I undertook to give in Committee about the possibility of qualifying the phrase "infringement of privacy" in clause 9(1)(b) by words such as "unwarranted", or "unfair". As the House will see, we have concluded that to limit it to the consideration of "unwarranted infringement of privacy" will meet the concerns expressed in Committee. I therefore hope that the amendment—which, in form, has to be a number of amendments, because the phrase appears several times—will commend itself to the House.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Amendments made: No. 60, in page 8, line 36, after second 'or', insert 'unwarranted'.
§ No. 61, in page 9, line 8, after 'such', insert 'unwarranted'.
§ No. 62, in page 9, line 15, after 'alleged', insert 'unwarranted'.—[Mr. Brittan.]