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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

My Lords, I have a problem with Amendment No. 4, although no doubt it is my own folly in misunderstanding it. A clear distinction is drawn between subsections (1) and (2) of Clause 9. Subsection (2) says: "““LBRO must give advice or make proposals to a Minister… on the matters referred to in subsection (1) if requested to do so by that Minister””." So it must follow—and it would be the natural reading of subsection (1)—that no request whatever has been made by any Minister of the Crown for advice. In that context, what does ““proposed legislation”” mean? Is it something that has been mentioned at a party conference? I took that example merely by way of illustration. Is it some document that has been passed to the LBRO? If it is the latter, it would seem to fall within the ““if requested to do so”” category. I may be making some foolish error, but I do not understand why this is being dealt with in this way or what ““proposed legislation”” means.