Legal Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I beg to move that the Commons amendments be now considered. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to. [The page and line references are to Bill 108 as first printed for the Commons.] 4B: Page 7, line 15, at end insert- ““(5A) Where P is an independent trade union, persons provided with relevant services do not constitute the public or a section of the public where- (a) the persons are provided with the relevant services by virtue of their membership or former membership of P or of another person's membership or former membership of P, and (b) the services are excepted membership services. (5B) Subject to subsection (5C), ““excepted membership services”” means relevant services which relate to or have a connection with- (a) relevant activities of a member, or former member, of the independent trade union; (b) any other activities carried on for the purposes of or in connection with, or arising from, such relevant activities; (c) any event which has occurred (or is alleged to have occurred) in the course of or in connection with such relevant activities or activities within paragraph (b); (d) activities carried on by a person for the purposes of or in connection with, or arising from, the person's membership of the independent trade union; and such other relevant services as the Lord Chancellor may by order specify. (5C) The Lord Chancellor may by order make provision about the circumstances in which relevant services do or do not relate to, or have a connection with, the matters mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (5B).”” 4C: Page 7, line 21, after ““subsection”” insert ““(5B), (5C) or”” 4D: Page 7, line 24, at end insert- ““(9) In subsection (5B), ““relevant activities””, in relation to a person who is or was a member of an independent trade union, means any employment (including self-employment), trade, occupation or other activity to which the person's membership of the trade union relates or related.””