Clause 28
Welfare Reform Bill
3:00 pm
Danny Alexander (Shadow Minister and Disability Spokesperson, Work & Pensions; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to move amendmentNo. 263, in page 24, line 44, at end add—
‘130H Limitation
(1) Regulations to which this section applies may not remain in force after January 2010.
(2) This section applies to regulations made under any of sections 130B to 130F above.’.
Thank you for drawing the Committee’s attention to the correct version of the amendment, Mr. Amess. The amendment proposes what is colloquially known as a sunset provision that would ensure that regulations under the clause would cease to have effect after January 2010. The arguments in favour pertain to the content of the clause, and I hope that you will permit me to range quite widely, in the hope that the need for a clause stand part debate may thereby be obviated—from my point of view at least. [Interruption.] I was going to say that the clause refers to antisocial behaviour. We may have just seen an example. I do not think that the hon. Member for South-West Surrey is in receipt of an antisocial behaviour order, but maybe one would be appropriate. I do not know what other Committee members think.