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Identity Cards Bill

My Lords, I seek clarification on Amendment No. 118. I am always very beady-eyed about prescribed regulations and so on, and the definition of ““prescribed””, which must occur a hundred times in the Bill, is on page 37 and is part of Clause 43. Amendment No. 118 strikes out from the word ““state”” to the end of the definition. That would mean that we are left with a definition that ““prescribed”” means:"““prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State””," full stop. The words to be deleted are,"““or determined in accordance with such regulations by the prescribed person””." Am I right in thinking that they would have allowed regulations to be prescribed by delegation; that is, that there could have been prescribed regulations which permitted regulations to be prescribed by somebody else? If that is what the omission of those words means, I am a happy fellow indeed. We will all cheer and, since good news is hard to find in this Bill, I want that opportunity. If I keep talking, news may come flashing back from the ether, but that is my question to the Minister.