division_name: Scotland Bill - Cross-border public bodies: initial status
motion: <p>Considered in Committee [Progress, 23 February]. 
  
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   Amendment proposed [23 February]:  No. 258, in page 37, line 32, to leave out from the word 'is' to end of line 33 and insert the words
   
  '120 per cent. of the electoral quota for England.'.--[ Dr Fox. ]
  <p>Question again proposed,  That the amendment be made.
   
  
  <p>It being half-past Five o'clock , The Chairman,  pursuant to the Order [13 January] and the Resolution [23 February], put forthwith the Question already proposed from the Chair .
  <p>Amendment negatived. 
  <p>Clause 81 ordered to stand part of the Bill. 
  <p>Clause 82 ordered to stand part of the Bill. 
  
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   I beg to move amendment No. 96, in page 38, line 25, after 'enactment', insert 'or by Royal Charter'.
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  The paragraph then gives some examples of such bodies. I shall not list them all--I have done that before--but, suffice to say, they include, inter alia, the BBC and the Independent Television Commission. Between the White Paper being published and the Bill being published, that has all disappeared.
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  The Gaelic Television Committee, which subsequently became the Gaelic Broadcasting Committee, has its statutory basis in those Acts. Section 183(1) of the 1990 Act says that the Secretary of State
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  "shall, for each subsequent financial year,"--
  <p>It being Eight o'clock , The Chairman,  pursuant to the Order   [13 January]   and the Resolution   [23 February], put forthwith the Question already proposed from the Chair. 
  <p>Question put, That the amendment be made :--
  <p>The Committee divided:  Ayes 42, Noes 287.
  