Clause 8 - Interpretation
Age-Related Payments Bill
2:45 pm
Mr Nigel Waterson (Shadow Minister, Economic Affairs; Eastbourne, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 8, in
clause 8, page 5, line 17, leave out subsection (2).
I apologise to the Committee in advance. I could not resist tabling the amendment because, hidden among much more mundane definitions, part of the subsection leaps off the page. The bit that gets me is ''with any necessary modifications''. I wonder what wealth of real-life detail that encompasses.
Apparently, the prospect of polygamous marriages is among the detail that has been examined in advance. I did not know that they were legal in this country, but assuming that they are, one wonders how many people we might be talking about—not how many people are in a given marriage, but how many in total might be affected. Legally or otherwise, if one were Polynesian or Mormon, one could have several wives all living under the same roof, but they would be treated as constituting one couple and would receive only £100.