Clause 2
11:00 am
Mark Hoban (Shadow Minister, Treasury; Fareham, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment 22, in clause 2, page 2, line 11, after ‘person’, insert
‘but the person has not opened a Saving Gateway account’.
This is a probing amendment. Subsection (3) states:
“Regulations may provide that the Commissioners may... issue a further notice of eligibility to an eligible person”.
We touched on this subject a little during the previous debate. The clause does not explain what happens when someone has already opened a saving gateway account. Are they entitled to receive a further notice of eligibility? We touched on a broader issue, which we will debate in a later group of amendments, but it seems fairly straightforward that if the intention is for people not to have more than one saving gateway account, it should not be possible to reissue a notice of eligibility if they already have an account.