Clause 32
Commons Bill [Lords]
9:00 am
David Maclean (Penrith and The Border, Conservative)
The amendment, tabled in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice), is a straightforward probing amendment that seeks information from the Minister on whether, in exercising its powers under clause 32, a statutory commons association could appoint agents—people to act on its behalf—that could include a voluntary commons association. The Minister may say that that is taken as read and is already in the clause, or is somewhere else in the Act, but I just want an assurance that it is not precluded by the Act, and that it would be legitimate for a voluntary commons association to be an official agent—paid, if necessary—of the new statutory commons committee.