Clause 2 - Individuals entered in Register
Identity Cards Bill
5:00 pm
Mr Derek Conway (Old Bexley and Sidcup, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 17, in page 3, line 19, leave out subsection (7).
No. 127, in page 3, line 20, at end add—
'(8) The Secretary of State must not make an order containing (with or without other provision) any provision that he is authorised to make by this section unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.
(9) No draft order containing a provision that the Secretary of State is authorised to make by this section is to be laid before Parliament unless—
(a) the Secretary of State has prepared and published a report containing a proposal for the making of such provision;
(b) the report sets out the Secretary of State's reasons for making the proposal;
(c) the report has been laid before Parliament and each House has approved the proposal contained in the report, either with or without modifications; and
(d) the draft order gives effect to the proposal so far as approved by both Houses.'.