Amendment: WALES BILL: Welsh rates of income tax: removal of referendum requirement
Amendment proposed: 11, page 14, leave out lines 30 and 31 and insert—
“(a) for subsection (1) substitute—
(1) Before the commencement of sections 8 and 9, the Secretary of State must lay a statement (“a fiscal framework”) before each House of Parliament setting out the arrangements for calculating and making payments into the Welsh Consolidated Fund under section 118 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 following the commencement of those sections.
(1A) The Secretary of State must send a copy of the fiscal framework to the First Minister for Wales and the First Minister must lay it before the Assembly.”
(b) after subsection (2) insert—
“(2A) But an order may not be made under subsection (2) until a fiscal framework laid under this section has been approved by resolution of both Houses of Parliament and of the Assembly.”
(c) for the heading substitute “Fiscal framework and commencement of income tax provisions.””—(Paul Flynn.)