Political Parties and Elections Bill

Amendment 8 is in the same group as this amendment and would have a similar effect. The proposal is a simple one: that there should be some time limit rather than no time limit for compliance with a disclosure notice. When someone is exactly the right person and they have received a notice, they should respond within an appropriate time. Not to do that would in itself be a delaying mechanism. The first amendment makes it obligatory that when a disclosure notice is issued to an organisation or individual it must be complied with within 28 days and generally probes the time that the Government consider to be appropriate. If it is not 28 days and the Government feel that the time limit should be longer or shorter, we would be open to that. We are concerned with the worrying potential of a vague time limit to be applied in an unpredictable and unfair manner.