Group 7: Miscellaneous and general provisions, including coming into force (Gwelliannau 77, 95, 78, 79, 96, 80, 85)

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:10 pm on 13 November 2019.

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Photo of Jeremy Miles Jeremy Miles Labour 7:10, 13 November 2019

Amendments 64 and 65 amend the overview section to remove references to two of the Bill's Schedules. Where the overview section refers to particular Parts of the Bill, that already includes the relevant Schedule, so there's no need to mention them separately. 

Amendment 77 removes unnecessary wording from the definition of 'enactment' in section 39 of the Bill. This duplicates the definition of enactment in our very own interpretation Act—the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019. 

Amendments 78 and 79 again reflect our preferred approach to referring to Schedules, this time in section 40.

Amendment 80 removes the unnecessary wording in section 40 after a reference to Part 5. It is obvious, from the context, that it's Part 5 of this Bill to which the reference is made. And amendment 81 makes the consequential changes required to the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019, as a result of Part 2 of this Bill—that is, the name change provisions. Since the legislation Act contains general provisions that will apply to all Welsh legislation and is concerned with improving the accessibility of the law, we think it's important to remember the text of that Act so that it uses the new names by which the Assembly and its Acts will be known in future. Diolch.