Clause 23 - Rules for using information
Identity Cards Bill
11:15 am
Mr Humfrey Malins (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Woking, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 215, in page 20, line 23, leave out from 'person' to end of line 25.
We move on to an important clause dealing with rules for using information without the individual's consent. I pause simply to say that so much under the Bill seems to be done without the individual's consent that it comes as no surprise to any of us to see another clause with that heading.
The clause empowers the Secretary of State to make some regulations that make provision on imposing requirements. This is a probing amendment that seeks to omit subsection (3)(c), because is not clear what that paragraph means. It says:
''Those regulations may include . . . provision imposing other requirements as to the manner in which such applications must be made'',
which suggests that the Minister will have powers to make regulations that may include ''provision imposing other requirements'' further down the line. We do not know what are those
''other requirements as to the manner in which such applications must be made.''
Perhaps the Minister could explain what is meant by paragraph (c).