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Welfare Reform Bill

I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I recognise, as she said almost in her opening sentence, that we are talking about fairly technical regulations. My major grouse is on the subject of "Minister" and "Secretary of State", which I explained to the noble Baroness when I first responded to the amendments. The only reference to "Minister" in the Births and Deaths Registration Act that I can find is in Section 39, which states: ""The Registrar General may, with the approval of the Minister, by statutory instrument make regulations"," for two purposes—it does not matter what the purposes are. For the noble Baroness to say that the schedule has been drafted to be in conformity with the 1953 Act is difficult to accept. Will she therefore have another go at answering my question?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
712 c182GC 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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