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Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his comments on the two amendments. I am still concerned, as he must be, with the variety of wording that we have in various Bills that he and I have dealt with regarding appointments. We do not as yet seem to have fixed on a standard form of words in Bills for the appointment of important officials such as the Commissioner for Older People. I am still mystified as to why regulations ““may make provision”” in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1, but the next paragraph begins, ““The Assembly must””. I would have thought that the prior regulations—the ones that may be made—are more essential and indeed a sine qua non to what follows in the succeeding paragraph. However, I have had the benefit of the Minister’s explanation and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendment No. 20 not moved.] An amendment (privilege) made.