MPs consider Lords amendments to Consumer Rights Bill
12 January 2015 (updated on 12 January 2015)
MPs debated amendments made by the House of Lords to the Consumer Rights Bill on Monday 12 January 2015.
Consumer Rights Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments: 12 January 2015
Amendment (a) to Lords Amendment 12 was disagreed to (Division No. 127, Ayes 204, Noes 289)
The House disagreed to Lords Amendment 12 (Division No.128, Ayes 290, Noes 203)
The Commons agreed the following Reason for disagreeing to Lords Amendment 12 which will be sent to the Lords.
"Because it would be inappropriate to require the provision of information relating to all categories of sellers when a ticket is resold, and because the amendment raises issues of compatibility with existing European Union law."
Lords Amendments 1, 2 to 11, and 13 to 78 were agreed to.
The Bill will now be returned to the House of Lords.
- Watch Parliament TV: Consideration of Lords amendments to the Consumer Rights Bill
- Read Commons Hansard: Consideration of Lords amendments to the Consumer Rights Bill
- Read Votes and Proceedings: item 6: Consumer Rights Bill
- Read current Parliamentary material in Topics: Consumers
Carry-over motion
The House agreed to extend the carry-over period on the bill until 30 March 2015.
- Watch Parliament TV: Consumer Rights Bill: carry-over extension
- Read Commons Hansard: Consumer Rights Bill: carry-over extension
- Read Glossary: carry-over motions/bills
Related information
Summary of the Bill
The title of the Bill was amended on 12 January 2015 as follows:
A Bill to amend the law relating to the rights of consumers and protection of their interests; to make provision about investigatory powers for enforcing the regulation of traders; to make provision about private actions in competition law and the Competition Appeal Tribunal; and for connected purposes.
Progress of the Bill
This Government Bill was introduced in the Commons on 23 January 2014. It had its second reading on 28 January 2014.
A carry-over motion was agreed on 28 January 2014 which allowed consideration of the Bill to be resumed in the 2014-15 session. The Committee stage took place over fifteen sittings from 11 February 2014 to 13 March 2014. MPs debated the report stage in the Commons on 13 May 2014 and its third reading on 16 June 2014.
The Bill had its first reading in the House of Lords on 17 June 2014 and completed its third reading in the Lords on 8 December 2014.
- Catch up on news: Consumer Rights Bill: Commons remaining stages
- Catch up on news: Consumer Rights Bill: Lords third reading
Keep up to date with all the proceedings and documentation, including amendment papers, on the Consumer Rights Bill and find out how a Bill becomes an Act of Parliament.
- Bills before Parliament: Consumer Rights Bill 2014-15
- About Parliament: Passage of a Bill
- Glossary: Carry over motions/bills
House of Commons Library Analysis
The House of Commons Library produces briefing papers to inform MPs of key issues. The papers contain factual information and a range of opinions on each subject, and aim to be politically impartial. The Library has prepared the following paper:
Lords Amendments
When a Bill has passed through third reading in both Houses it is returned to the first House (where it started) for the second House's amendments (proposals for change) to be considered.
Both Houses must agree on the exact wording of the Bill. There is no set time period between the third reading of a Bill and consideration of any Commons or Lords amendments.
What happens after consideration of amendments?
Once the Commons and Lords agree on the final version of the Bill, it can receive Royal Assent and become an Act of Parliament (the proposals of the Bill now become law).
Watching proceedings from the public gallery
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