Clause 24
Commons Bill [Lords]
4:45 pm
Jim Knight (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; South Dorset, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 8, in clause 24, page 14, line 14, leave out ‘particular' and insert ‘description of'.
Amendment No. 8 relates to the power in clause 24 to make regulations regarding applications under part 1. Subsection (7)(a) will enable regulations to make provision for the appointment of persons from a panel to deal with particular applications. The amendment will ensure that regulations can assign appointed persons to deal with a class of applications rather than individual applications. For example, the Government might wish to provide that all applications under schedule 2 to de-register wrongly registered common land must be referred to a person appointed from the panel. That would ensure that the sort of legally and factually complex issues likely to arise in such cases would be dealt with by a suitably experienced and qualified person.