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Health and Social Care Bill

moved Amendment No. 67: 67: Clause 38, page 18, line 38, leave out from ““in”” to end of line 39 and insert ““a case where— (i) a sole person has been registered under this Chapter as a service provider in respect of a regulated activity, and (ii) the person has died;”” The noble Earl said: This is no more than a simple drafting matter. Clause 38(1)(a) says that regulations may, "““provide for the provisions of this Chapter to apply with prescribed modifications in cases where the only person registered under this Chapter as a service provider in respect of a regulated activity has died””." It is clear what is meant, but I wonder whether the syntax and sentence construction could not be made a little better. If we talk about a situation where the only person registered under this chapter as a service provider has died, it rather suggests that the provision might apply only where one person in the whole country was registered as a service provider and that person has died; but we do not mean that. In an effort to be helpful, I have proposed an alternative form of words, which I hope that the Minister will consider. I beg to move.