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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

I thought that I had addressed Amendment No. 18. I take the rebuke of the noble Lord seriously. I shall find my notes and see what more I can add on that issue. As I understood it, the amendment would delete the elucidation on consolidation in Clause 1(5). Amendment No. 18 would remove the words, "““for example, where legislation is hard to understand””." That is intended to be a helpful explanation of what is meant by a burden arising from the form of legislation. We argue that the effect would be to make it less clear what is meant by financial cost or administrative inconvenience resulting from the form of legislation. I think that I argued earlier that we thought that that would cast unnecessary doubt over what types of changes to legislation could be made that would remove or reduce burdens. I apologise for an element of repetition there. That is the explanation.