Consumer Rights Bill — Report (2nd Day) — 24 Nov 2014 at 20:03

Amendments 32 to 40

Moved by Baroness Neville-Rolfe

32: Schedule 5, page 81, line 14, at beginning insert “In the case of a routine inspection,”

33: Schedule 5, page 81, line 14, leave out “that sub-paragraph” and insert “sub-paragraph (1)”

34: Schedule 5, page 81, line 24, at end insert-

“(5A) In this paragraph “routine inspection” means an exercise of the power in sub-paragraph (1) other than where-”

35: Schedule 5, page 81, line 25, leave out “of entry is to be” and insert “is”

36: Schedule 5, page 81, line 26, leave out “and the officer” and insert “who”

37: Schedule 5, page 81, line 29, leave out “this paragraph” and insert “sub-paragraph (3)”

38: Schedule 5, page 81, line 31, leave out “this paragraph” and insert “that sub-paragraph”

39: Schedule 5, page 81, line 38, leave out “a notice is not given, and the officer” and insert “an officer of an enforcer enters premises under sub-paragraph (1) otherwise in the course of a routine inspection, and”

40: Schedule 5, page 81, line 43, leave out from beginning to “finds” and insert “If an officer of an enforcer enters premises under sub-paragraph (1) and”

Amendments 32 to 40 agreed.

Amendment 40A

Moved by Lord Taverne

40A: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause-

“Product description and advertisement

(1) Subject to subsection (2), where any specification, description or advertisement of goods, services or land or property offered for sale, hire or lease, or any instructions or maintenance manual relating to such goods or services includes one or more units of measurement, those units shall be-

(a) those set out in Schedule 1 of the Units of Measurement Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1082) (as amended); or

(b) any multiples or submultiples of those units as set out in Schedule 2 of those Regulations.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to products listed in Schedule (Product description and advertisement).

(3) Subject to subsection (4), supplementary indications may be used in addition to the units authorised in subsection (1).

(4) Where supplementary indications are used-

(a) in the case of a conflict between an indication of quantity expressed in an authorised unit and a supplementary indication, the authorised unit shall prevail; and

(b) the authorised unit shall appear first, and any characters employed in the marking of quantity in relation to a supplementary indication shall be no larger and no more prominent than those employed in the marking of quantity expressed in the authorised unit.

(5) In this section-

(a) an “authorised unit” means a unit of measurement specified in Schedule 1 of the Units of Measurement Regulations 1986 (as amended) or any multiples or submultiples of those units as set out in Schedule 2 of those Regulations,

(b) a “supplementary indication” means one or more indications of quantity expressed in a unit of measurement, other than an authorised unit, which is used in conjunction with an indication of quantity expressed in an authorised unit,

(c) “unit of measurement” does not include arbitrary sizes such as sizes of shoes or clothing, paper and stationery or eggs,

(d) a “year” is not to be treated as a unit of measurement.”

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (Not-Content)Minority (Content)Turnout
Con106 (+1 tell) 045.0%
Crossbench4 44.3%
DUP0 133.3%
Green0 1100.0%
Judge1 06.7%
Lab0 106 (+2 tell)48.0%
LDem54 (+1 tell) 050.9%
PC0 150.0%
UUP1 1100.0%
Total:166 11436.4%

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Baroness Neuberger LDemaye

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