Part of Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:15 am on 24 April 2007.
Mark Prisk
Shadow Minister (Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform)
11:15,
24 April 2007
I beg to move Amendment No. 39, in Clause 50, page 30, line 25, leave out from ‘scheme’ to end of line 26.
Clause 50(4) reads:
“A regulator may, in accordance with section 51, withdraw its approval of a redress scheme,” but goes on to say that it
“may do so generally or in relation to consumer complaints of a description specified by the regulator.”
The purpose of this probing amendment is simply to establish on what basis a regulator might withdrawits approval of a redress scheme. The wording of the subsection is a little unclear, and for the sake of the record it would be helpful if the Minister couldclarify it.
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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.
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