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Employment Bill [HL]

I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 5. This is the privilege amendment; noble Lords will forgive me if I rehearse the standard phrase. This amendment will remove the privilege amendment that was made when the Bill moved to another place. As noble Lords will be aware, the financial powers are restricted by the rights and privileges of the other place. As the Bill originated here and contains financial provisions, a privilege amendment was added to the Bill before its introduction into the other place to ensure that the financial privilege was not infringed. The amendment is purely technical and is necessary to remove the privilege amendment, which provided that nothing in the Bill should impose or vary any charge on the people or public funds. On Question, Motion agreed to.