Clause 13 - Licence requirement
Human Tissue Bill
10:45 am
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury, Conservative)
We deal now with licence requirements—in the context of amendment No. 156, the licence requirements for the storage of body parts. We have already heard about the need to clarify aspects of the Bill, and my hon. Friends and I feel that some clarification of subsection (2)(e)(ii) is due. Such clarification would be helped by the amendment, which would exclude part 2 of the schedule 1 purposes. At the moment, that is not clear. It would be helpful if it were very clear that the Under-Secretary does not intend those part 2 purposes to require licensing, and our amendment would achieve that.
Amendment No. 32 is simple. I expect that the Under-Secretary will perceive a theme running through our amendments: we seek to clip the powers of the Secretary of State. Amendment No. 32 would do that. Meanwhile, will the Minister comment on the circumstances that would result in the exception referred to in subsection (3)?