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Commons Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 137:"Page 15, line 4, at end insert—" ““(   )   Regulations under subsection (1) shall include provision for meetings of commons associations to be held in public.”” The noble Baroness said: In rising to move the amendment, which provides that meetings of the commons associations be held in public, I thank the Government for circulating the draft statutory instrument, article 13 of which says that meetings of a commons association or the committee of an association shall be open to the public. That answers the Government’s intention; the only issue is that there is a list of things in the Bill, and this is not one of them. While I recognise that it is the Government’s intention, I wonder whether they feel like putting it in the Bill. I beg to move.