Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

My Lords, I, too, am grateful to the Minister for listening to what was said in Grand Committee about the use of the word ““effluxion””. I can only hope that the parliamentary draftsman has made a note to substitute ““passage”” for ““effluxion”” where it occurs in other statutes and statutory instruments, except perhaps where reference is made to the exercise of options as in the Finance (No. 2) Act 1992, or the expiration of tenancies or licences as    in the Utilities Act 2000, or of contracts of employment as in the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998. It has something of a pedigree in those contexts but I am not sure whether it is necessary to use such an arcane word anywhere if ““passage”” fits the need here. On Question, amendment agreed to. Clause 19 [Code of practice]: