Clause 10 - Short title, commencement and extent
Home Energy Conservation Bill
8:00 pm
Mr John Cummings (Easington, Labour)
With this it will be convenient to take the following: Amendment No. 42, in page 5, line 13, leave out subsection (2) and insert—
'( ) The following provisions come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed—
(a) section (Registration schemes),
(b) section (Model schemes and confirmation of schemes),
(c) section (Wales), so far as relating to any power to make regulations conferred by either of those sections.
( ) Otherwise, this Act shall come into force on such day as the appropriate Minister may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.
( ) The appropriate Minister may by order made by statutory instrument make such transitional provisions and savings as he considers appropriate in connection with the coming into force of any provision of this Act.
( ) In this Act ''the appropriate Minister'' means—
(a) in relation to England, the Secretary of State,
(b) in relation to Wales, the National Assembly for Wales.'.
New clause 5—Wales—
'(1) The reference to the Housing Act 1985 in Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/ 672) is to be treated as referring to that Act as amended by this Act.
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect the power to make further Orders varying or omitting that reference.'.