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  Identity Cards Bill (amendment 46: compulsion to register)
  
  --- MOTION EFFECT ---
  Lords voted to prevent the Home Secretary from having the power to compel people to register for ID cards.
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  <p pid="a.980.0/6" pwmotiontext="moved">Clause 6 [<i>Power of Secretary of State to require registration</i>]:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.980.0/7" pwmotiontext="moved">[<i>Amendment No. 45 not moved.</i>]</p>
  
  <p pid="a.980.1/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 46:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.980.1/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Leave out Clause 6.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.993.1/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 46) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.993.1/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 198; Not-Contents, 140</p>
  
  
  --- COMMENTS AND NOTES ---
  
  (put thoughts and notes for other researchers here)
  
  In the subsequent vote in the Commons, the Government accepted this as a "concession" but reinserted the requirement for people to register when applying for "designated documents".
  
  <p pid="a.979.4/2" pwmotiontext="notmoved">[<i>Amendments Nos. 40 to 42 not moved.</i>]</p>
  
  <p pid="a.980.0/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 43:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.980.0/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Page 5, line 32, at end insert-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.980.0/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"( ) The power of the Secretary of State to make regulations containing (with or without other provision) any provision that he is authorised to make by this section is exercisable, on the first occasion on which regulations are made under this section, only if a draft of the regulations has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.980.0/4" pwmotiontext="moved">On Question, amendment agreed to.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.980.0/5" pwmotiontext="moved">[<i>Amendment No. 44 not moved.</i>]</p>
  