Clause 36
Local Transport Bill [Lords]
12:00 pm
Ann Winterton (Congleton, Conservative)
The amendment would remove the regulation-making power in clause 36 that enable regulations to be made to set out the procedure for determining applications for the approval of quality contracts schemes or the continuation of such schemes. In a sense, the amendment would mean that an approvals board’s actions would not be defined. The Government believe that it is important that the procedures for an approvals board should be clearly and legally defined, and that is the purpose of the clause. Subsection (3)(b) refers to the
“procedure for determining such applications”,
which deals with how the approvals board would receive applications. Removing it would mean that it would not be possible to set that out in legislation.
Subsection (3) is simply about the regulations and how the approvals process might work. Removing paragraph (b) would undermine the whole system of quality contracts and approvals boards, so I invite the hon. Gentleman to withdraw the amendment.