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Proceeding contribution from Lord Skelmersdale (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 7 July 2009. It occurred during Debate on bill and Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.

Welfare Reform Bill

I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I recognise, as she said almost in her opening sentence, that we are talking about fairly technical regulations. My major grouse is on the subject of "Minister" and "Secretary of State", which I explained to the noble Baroness when I first responded to the amendments. The only reference to "Minister" in the Births and Deaths Registration Act that I can find is in Section 39, which states: ""The Registrar General may, with the approval of the Minister, by statutory instrument make regulations"," for two purposes—it does not matter what the purposes are. For the noble Baroness to say that the schedule has been drafted to be in conformity with the 1953 Act is difficult to accept. Will she therefore have another go at answering my question?

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
712 c182GC 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
Subjects
Children Disclosure of information Absent parents Income support Domestic abuse Fathers Maintenance Pilot schemes Protection Parents Parliamentary scrutiny Parental responsibility Social security Social security benefits Registration Vulnerable adults Registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
Legislation
Welfare Reform Bill 2008-09
Link
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