§ Mr. WaddingtonI beg to move amendment No. 9, in page 7, line 23, leave out from 'Act' to end of line 27.
Clause 5 provides for the application of schedule 1 and contains a reference to the contents of schedule 1. Unfortunately, schedule 1 was amended in Committee, but clause 5 was not amended correspondingly. That shows the folly of trying to spell out in clauses what is later contained in a schedule. To prevent anything else happening from now onwards, from that would need further amendment of clause 5 to change its description of what is contained in the schedule, the best course is to remove any reference in clause 5 to what is contained in the schedule.
§ Mr. Barry JonesThe Minister is dealing with a technicality. As I understand it, he is unhappy with the reference to schedule 1 in the clause. Are not
members and servants of industrial training boards and their committees, the publication of information by the boards and the transfer between boards of establishments' activitiesimportant matters? What persuasive case can the Minister mount to urge us to let him have his way? Is it not the case that the Department is proposing less open government?
§ Mr. WaddingtonThe draftsman was trying to be helpful. To save people the trouble of having to refer at the same time both to clauses and to the schedule, he decided to try to repeat in clause 5 what was written into the schedule. It is all surplusage, which we can do without.
§ Amendment agreed to.