Clause 44 - Standards of performance
Water Bill [Lords]
10:00 am
Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster, Conservative)
This is a probing amendment. The bits of the Bill that the amendments would leave out are not particularly contentious, but they seem unnecessary because section 39 of the Water Industry Act already includes
''persons or bodies appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of persons likely to be affected''.
Therefore, we do not need new subsection (1)(b)(iv), which specifies
''other persons or bodies as the Secretary of State may consider appropriate''.
They are already included. The purpose of the amendment is to find out why we need all the extra paragraphs in this part of the amendment to the Water Industry Act.