Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:30 pm on 13 July 2006.
Eric Martlew
Labour, Carlisle
With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments Nos. 163 and 164.
Joan Ryan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The amendments modify Clause 21 to allow the Secretary of State to prescribe additional requirements that must be fulfilled before a person is regarded as being subject to monitoring within the meaning of clause 21. The current criteria are that the individual is not barred and has satisfied the prescribed identification and application requirements. Only a person who is subject to monitoring may engage in regulated activity for a regulated activity provider. Amendment No. 162 widens clause 21(1)(c) so that the prescribed requirements do not relate merely to identification. Amendments Nos. 163 and 164 make consequential changes to the other parts of the clause that relate to identification.
The amendments would allow requirements to be added to the identification requirements that must be satisfied before a person is subject to monitoring and may therefore engage in regulated activity. That will ensure that the scheme can continue to build on wider developments, such as the development of new police systems. I therefore ask that hon. Members accept the amendments.
Amendments made: No. 163, in clause 21, page 14, line 26, leave out ‘If the prescribed identification’ and insert
‘The prescribed requirements may include requirements as to the manner in which the applicant must prove his identity (identification requirements); and if such’.
No. 164, in clause 21, page 14, line 31, leave out ‘prescribed’.—[Joan Ryan.]
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A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
As a bill passes through Parliament, MPs and peers may suggest amendments - or changes - which they believe will improve the quality of the legislation.
Many hundreds of amendments are proposed by members to major bills as they pass through committee stage, report stage and third reading in both Houses of Parliament.
In the end only a handful of amendments will be incorporated into any bill.
The Speaker - or the chairman in the case of standing committees - has the power to select which amendments should be debated.
