Climate Change Bill [HL]

My Lords, I welcome the plastic bag initiative, whether it is enacted or whether persuasion works on retailers. Over the time that I have been a Member of the House, we have heard many Questions in the Chamber about plastic bags. A village called Modbury in south Devon, with which I have been associated for much of my life, was, I think, the first village or settlement in the country to ban the plastic bag within a community. It shows how such matters can mushroom. I very much welcome the amendments. On Question, Motion agreed to. 43: Insert the following new Clause- ““Charges for single use carrier bags (1) Schedule (Charges for single use carrier bags) makes provision about charges for single use carrier bags. (2) In that Schedule- Part 1 confers power on the relevant national authority to make regulations about charges for single use carrier bags; Part 2 makes provision about civil sanctions; Part 3 makes provision about the procedures applying to regulations under the Schedule. (3) In that Schedule ““the relevant national authority”” means- (a) the Secretary of State in relation to England; (b) the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales; (c) the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland in relation to Northern Ireland. (4) Regulations under that Schedule are subject to affirmative resolution procedure if- (a) they are the first regulations to be made by the relevant national authority in question under the Schedule, (b) they contain provision imposing or providing for the imposition of new civil sanctions, or (c) they amend or repeal a provision of an enactment contained in primary legislation. (5) Otherwise regulations under that Schedule are subject to negative resolution procedure.”” 43B: Line 21, after ““sanctions,”” insert- ““( ) they increase the amount or maximum amount of a monetary penalty or change the basis on which such an amount or maximum is to be determined,””