Amendments
Fire and Rescue Services Bill
3:45 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
I cannot let clauses 51 and 52 pass without comment. I sought to table amendments to both of them because I do not understand why the conventional language has been changed. There is nothing offensive about the statement in clause 51 that
''Schedule 1 contains minor and consequential amendments''
because that is indubitably the case, but it does not state that schedule 1 shall have effect. In every Bill that I have dealt with, schedules are introduced into the legislation by a clause that specifically gives effect to them.
The same point applies to clause 52. It is one of the most bizarre clauses that I have ever come across. It states:
''Schedule 2 contains repeals.''