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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 10: 10: Clause 53, page 27, line 11, leave out ““any person to whom”” and insert ““the tribunal to which”” The noble Baroness said: My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments Nos. 11 and 12. On Report we had a long debate about the tribunal provisions in the Bill. As noble Lords will know, Clause 53 requires appeals against new sanctions to be heard by statutory tribunals. Clause 53(3) and (4) contain three references to a ““person””, which by virtue of Clause 53(1) must be taken to mean a tribunal. However, these references have caused some confusion, and I thank the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, for pointing that out in our meeting on 25 April. I have tabled these amendments to make clear that the references in fact mean the tribunal. I hope noble Lords agree that they improve the drafting of the Bill. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to.