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Equality Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 184:"Page 30, line 38, leave out ““such”” and insert ““the Scottish Ministers, the National Assembly for Wales and such other””" The noble Baroness said: I rise to speak to Amendment No. 184. Noble Lords will know that this Bill applies to Scotland as well as to England and Wales because equality, as your Lordships know, is a reserved matter. However, education is a devolved matter in   Scotland. Any changes made to the education provisions of the Bill under the powers in Clause 52(3) will therefore have particular implications for the devolved authorities. Because of the relationship here between what is reserved and what is devolved, we think that the Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Assembly will inevitably need to be consulted before regulations are made which affect their provisions. This amendment makes that explicit. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to. Clause 52, as amended, agreed to. Clause 53 [Local education authorities and education authorities]: