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Planning Bill

moved Amendment No. 179: 179: Clause 37, page 23, line 23, leave out from ““may”” to ““to”” in line 25 and insert ““provide model provisions”” The noble Baroness said: This may not take quite so long. Clause 36 deals with what my noble friend has called ADCs—applications for development consent. I have three little amendments here, and I hope that the Minister got my note saying what I would say. First, I want to probe what is the regulation-making power in Clause 36. Secondly, model provisions may be prescribed, but they are not mandatory. My amendment probes what that means. Does it mean that there cannot be a provision which is a bit different from the prescribed provision? Can the Minister give me a translation? I hope the noble Lord, Lord Patel, also received my e-mail. I feel that Clause 37 is slightly heavy-handed, but I shall not take issue with that. But I am unclear about how this will work. I beg to move.