division_name: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
motion: <p pid="b.1343.1/1" pwmotiontext="resumed">Consideration of amendments on Report resumed on Clause 3.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1343.1/2" pwmotiontext="notmoved">[<I>Amendment No. 17 not moved.</I>]</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1343.2/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 18:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1343.2/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Before Clause 4, insert the following new clause-</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1343.2/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"INDEPENDENCE OF THE ECONOMIC REGULATORS</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1343.2/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(1) An order under this Part may not restrict the jurisdiction or undermine the independence of any economic regulator.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1343.2/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(2) For the purposes of this section-</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1343.2/6" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) restricting the jurisdiction of any economic regulator includes diminishing, removing or transferring to another person any function conferred on or exercisable by an economic regulator; (b) undermining the independence of any economic regulator includes imposing on an economic regulator an obligation to comply with the wishes of- (i) a Minister of the Crown; (ii) a person who owes such an obligation to a Minister of the Crown; or (iii) a person who is controlled by a Minister of the Crown.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1343.2/7" pwmotiontext="moved">(3) An order under this section may not render a person who is a director or member of an economic regulator removable from office on grounds other than those which were in force on the date on which this Act was passed.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b.1343.2/8" pwmotiontext="moved">(4) In this section, "economic regulator" means any of-</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1343.2/9" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority; (b) the Office of Communications; (c) the Office of Rail Regulation; (d) the Postal Services Commission; (e) the Water Services Regulation Authority; (f) the Office of Fair Trading; (g) the Civil Aviation Authority."</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1353.1/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 18) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="b.1353.1/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 96; Not-Contents, 110.</p>