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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, this is a disparate group of amendments. Amendments 256ZA and 276A both carry on the criteria for collecting societies and are intended for the benefit of the framers of the regulations. They are designed to ensure that the collecting societies are accustomed by their work to dealing with the sort of institutions for which they will be granting licences. Amendment 259A was our attempt to frame the definition of due diligence, which again has been covered by the government amendment. I hope the Government will consider that amendment with any others when finalising that definition in the later stages of the Bill. Amendment 280A is a special amendment relating to libraries. It seeks to ensure that libraries are properly defined as public libraries which are defined in legislation. They are wholly owned trading subsidiaries. It is designed to ensure for instance that institutions such as the British Library fall within that but that possibly the search engines which are there for commercial purposes do not. Finally, on Amendment 282A, I detect a whiff of a Henry VIII clause in new Section 116D(2)(b) on the power, "““to make different provision for different purposes””." The amendment relates to the subjects that are covered in new Sections 116A and 116B. I beg to move.