Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
28AJ: Clause 34, page 33, line 8, at end insert—
“( ) In this section and section 35 “specified person” means a person specified, or of a description specified, in Schedule (Public service delivery: specified persons for the purposes of sections 34 and 35).”
28AK: Clause 34, page 33, line 8, at end insert—
“(3A) The appropriate national authority may by regulations—
(a) amend Schedule (Public service delivery: specified persons for the purposes of sections 34 and 35) so as to add, remove or modify an entry relating to a person or description of person;
(b) amend subsection (1) so as to add or remove a person or description of person to whom information may be disclosed;
(c) amend subsection (3) so as to add, modify or remove a reference to a water poverty measure.”
28AL: Clause 34, page 33, line 8, at end insert—
“( ) Regulations under subsection (3A)(a) may add an entry relating to a person or a description of person to Schedule (Public service delivery: specified persons for the purposes of sections 34 and 35) only if—
(a) the person is a public authority or (as the case may be) each person of that description is a public authority, or
(b) the person provides services to a public authority or (as the case may be) each person of that description provides services to a public authority.”
28AM: Clause 34, page 33, line 8, at end insert—
“( ) Regulations under subsection (3A)(b) may add a person or a description of person to subsection (1) only if the person or (as the case may be) each person of that description—
(a) provides assistance of a kind mentioned in subsection (2) to people living in water poverty,
(b) monitors or enforces the provision of such assistance to such people,
(c) administers a water poverty measure, or
(d) provides services to a person within paragraph (a), (b) or (c).”
28AN: Clause 34, page 33, line 8, at end insert—
“( ) In determining whether to make regulations under subsection (3A)(a) or (b) in relation to a person or description of person the appropriate national authority must have regard, in particular, to—
(a) the systems and procedures for the secure handling of information by that person or persons of that description, and
(b) in the case of regulations which remove a person from Schedule (Public service delivery: specified persons for the purposes of sections 34 and 35) or subsection (1), whether that person, or any person providing services to that person, has had regard to the code of practice under section 39 as required by that section.”
28AP: Clause 34, page 33, line 12, at end insert—
“( ) In this section “water poverty measure” means—
(a) a scheme, arrangement or set of arrangements, or
(b) a function or set of functions,
which has as its purpose (or one of its purposes) the provision of assistance of a kind mentioned in subsection (2) to people living in water poverty.”