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Planning Bill

moved Amendment No. 160B: 160B: Clause 233, page 134, line 39, leave out ““8”” and insert ““9 (except section 189(2) to (5) and paragraph 7 of Schedule 7)”” The noble Baroness said: My Lords, Amendments Nos. 160B and 161B are minor and technical amendments to correct an anomaly in the commencement clause. Clause 233(1) provides that the provisions of Parts 1 to 8 which confer power to make secondary legislation shall come into force on Royal Assent. This avoids the need to make a separate order commencing these powers before commencing the substantive provisions. The effect of these amendments is that the provisions in Part 9 which confer power to make secondary legislation, other than those for which specific provision is made elsewhere in Clause 233, will also come into force on Royal Assent. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to.