Clause 95 - Confirmation of directions under s. 94
Communications Bill
4:30 pm
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby, Conservative)
The amendments are small and would replace the word ''the'' with the word ''a''. The purpose of that is to give Ofcom greater flexibility regarding action that it might wish to take to deal with alleged breaches. The Minister will know that under clause 94 Ofcom can take action to deal with an alleged breach as a matter of urgency and it can make a direction. Clause 95 enables Ofcom to confirm such a direction. The amendments are intended to give Ofcom flexibility to confirm or modify directions that have been made. The Committee might consider that to be a matter of semantics, but it has been suggested to us that the amendment would allow Ofcom to work with greater flexibility.