Electoral Administration Bill

moved Amendment No. 46:"Page 6, leave out lines 32 to 36." The noble Lord said: The amendment seeks to take out subsection (3) of the new section that Clause 9 introduces, which comprises one of those catch-all provisions of Bills that governments love so much—whenever I see them, I protest about them, although I never seem to get anywhere. Subsection (3) states:"““Regulations made by the Secretary of State may amend subsection (2) by—""(a) varying any of the paragraphs in that subsection;""(b) inserting any paragraph;""(c) repealing any paragraph””." In other words, it makes you wonder why we are bothering discussing this at all when the Secretary of State can simply do away with the provision and put something completely different in its place. I beg to move.