---

Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. He has said that he will look at this matter and, with the noble Viscount, Lord Bledisloe, flying air cover, I am able to withdraw Amendments Nos. 16 and 17. In his comments on Amendment No. 18 there was a lot of this clause fitting in with that clause. I would like to read what he has to say and make sure the point that we were driving at is met by the safeguards that he believes exist. We have no wish to add regulatory barnacles—we have spent most of the past two months trying to get rid of them. However, we would like to have the chance to read what he said in a long speaking note covering a complex area. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendment No. 17 not moved.] Clause 24 [Notice to registrar in case of entrenched provisions]: [Amendment No. 18 not moved.]