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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, in moving Amendment 69, I shall speak also to Amendment 70A. These amendments have an entirely helpful intent. At the moment this new subsection ends with paragraph (g). So the provision states: ""A notification under subsection (4) must include … anything else that the initial obligations code requires it to include"." Amendment 70A would have the effect of broadening that. It states that the notification, ""must comply with any other requirement of the initial obligations code"." I think that there are things that should be required in relation to this notification and not just things that should be in it. For example, the tone of the notification, the quality of the information provided and requirements concerning the extent of the obligations placed on a subscriber in terms of updating their network and taking protective measures are quite hard to fit under the notion of "including" things in the notification. Therefore, my wording here simply broadens the Government’s ability to add in things under the general heading of this paragraph. I beg to move.