Commons Bill [HL]

moved, as an amendment to Amendment No. 28, Amendment No. 29: Line 2, leave out ““rectification”” and insert ““registration”” The noble Baroness said: My Lords, although 10 years may seem a long time for the mistakes to be rectified, it is a short time, as we know from the sort of time scale needed for finding out the exact mistakes, tracing them back and getting to the point of rectifying them. We accept that it may be some use to have some form of time limit, and our amendment seeks to say that the registration of those mistakes must have happened by 2015, and that the rectification could occur thereafter. It is a fairly straightforward amendment that simply seeks to recognise that the time needed for such work to be undertaken satisfactorily—and often voluntarily, as the noble Baroness said—should be as generous as possible while still allowing a cut-off date in the end, so that it does not drag on in perpetuity. I beg to move.