Commons Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 250: "Page 27, line 20, after ““Wales)”” insert ““other than an order under section 50””" The noble Baroness said: Government Amendment No. 250 makes it clear that the commencement orders under Clause 50 that will bring most of the provisions of this Bill into force in due course will not be subject either to the affirmative or the negative resolution procedures. It is entirely normal that neither procedure applies to commencement orders. The amendment simply corrects an oversight in the drafting of the clause. Government Amendment No. 251 omits current subsection (5). As noble Lords will know, draft statutory instruments that are subject to affirmative resolution are also subject to special procedure in this House if they are hybrid in character; that is, if they affect a particular private interest in a different way from the private interest of other persons or bodies of the same type. Subsection (5) would have exempted any draft of a statutory instrument under this Bill from that special procedure. We have concluded that that is inappropriate and that any hybrid statutory instruments under the Bill should proceed through both Houses according to standing orders. We think the only relevant instruments will be any orders amending local Acts under the new clause following Clause 49. I beg to move.