division_name: Courts Bill [HL]
motion: <p pid="a.1208.2/2" pwmotiontext="notmoved">[Amendment No. 6 not moved.]</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.2/3" pwmotiontext="considered">Clause 4 [Establishment of court administration councils]:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.2/4" pwmotiontext="notmoved">[Amendments Nos. 7 to 17 not moved.]</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 18:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1208.3/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Leave out Clause 4 and insert the following new Clause&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"ESTABLISHMENT OF COURTS BOARDS</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(1) England and Wales is to be divided into areas for each of which there is to be a courts board.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(2) The areas are to be those specified by an order made by the Lord Chancellor.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/6" pwmotiontext="moved">(3) Each area established by an order under subsection (2) is to be known by such name as is specified in the order (but subject to subsection (4)).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/7" pwmotiontext="moved">(4) The Lord Chancellor may make orders altering the areas.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/8" pwmotiontext="moved">(5) "Altering", in relation to an area, includes (as well as changing its boundaries)&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/9" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) combining it with one or more other areas,</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/10" pwmotiontext="moved">(b) dividing it between two or more other areas, and</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/11" pwmotiontext="moved">(c) changing its name.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/12" pwmotiontext="moved">(6) Before making an order under subsection (4), the Lord Chancellor must consult any courts board affected by the proposed order.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/13" pwmotiontext="moved">(7) Schedule (Constitution and procedure of courts boards) contains provisions about the constitution and procedure of courts boards."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/14" pwmotiontext="moved">On Question, amendment agreed to.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/15" pwmotiontext="moved">[Amendment No. 19, as an amendment to Amendment No. 18, not moved.]</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1208.3/16" pwmotiontext="moved">Clause 5 [Role of court administration councils]:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 20:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1209.0/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Leave out Clause 5 and insert the following new Clause&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"FUNCTIONS OF COURTS BOARDS</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(1) Each courts board is under a duty, in accordance with guidance under this section&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) to scrutinise, review and make recommendations about the way in which the Lord Chancellor is discharging his general duty in relation to the courts with which the board is concerned, and</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/6" pwmotiontext="moved">(b) for the purposes mentioned in paragraph (a), to consider draft and final business plans relating to those courts.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/7" pwmotiontext="moved">(2) In discharging his general duty in relation to the courts, the Lord Chancellor must give due consideration to recommendations provided by the boards under subsection (1).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/8" pwmotiontext="moved">(3) The courts with which a courts board is concerned are&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/9" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) the Crown Court,</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/10" pwmotiontext="moved">(b) county courts, and</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/11" pwmotiontext="moved">(c) magistrates' courts,</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/12" pwmotiontext="moved">in the board's area.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/13" pwmotiontext="moved">(4) The Lord Chancellor must prepare and issue the boards with guidance about how they should carry out their functions under subsection (1).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/14" pwmotiontext="moved">(5) The guidance may in particular contain provisions&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/15" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) about the procedures to be followed in connection with draft and final business plans;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/16" pwmotiontext="moved">(b) conferring on the boards functions supplementing their functions under subsection (1).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/17" pwmotiontext="moved">(6) The Lord Chancellor may from time to time issue the boards with revised guidance and revoke previous guidance.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/18" pwmotiontext="moved">(7) Guidance issued under this section must be laid before both Houses of Parliament."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/19" pwmotiontext="moved">On Question, amendment agreed to.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.0/20" pwmotiontext="moved">[Amendment No. 21, as an amendment to Amendment No. 20, not moved.]</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.1/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved, as an amendment to Amendment No. 20, Amendment No. 22:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.1209.1/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Line 12, at end insert&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.1/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"(2A) If the Lord Chancellor rejects a recommendation made by a courts board about a final business plan under subsection (1) he shall give to the board written reasons for so doing."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.3/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 22) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1209.3/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 98; Not-Contents, 83.</p>