Schedule 9
Finance Bill
Public Bill Committees, 22 May 2007, 4:30 pm
Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West, Labour)
Bearing it in mind that the Committee is scrutinising the wording of the proposal, among other things, I want to raise a rather more prosaic matter, and my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary may wish to write to me about what appears to be the most curious piece of drafting in the Bill, on pages 156 and 157. Paragraph (10)(2) substitutes part of a sentence, the final words of which are
“or as a business transfer-out,”.
The Bill continues:
“(3) In that sentence (as amended by sub-paragraph (2))—omit “or as a business transfer out”.
If I am reading that correctly—I might not be—sub-paragraph (2) inserts some words and sub-paragraph (3)(a) immediately removes some of them. That seems very curious to me. Perhaps my hon. Friend could write to me about it later.