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Secondly, there does not seem to be any power to amend the sum of £5,000 in new section 20E(1)(b) of the 1990 act, yet section 38(1A)(b) provides for a specific power to amend the same sum specified in new section 55(1)(bc) of the 1980 act.
Okay, that is fair enough, but I return to my initial concern about the fact that we are only a year away from the new tranche of money kicking in and the implementation of new funding.
Amendment 359 would insert before section 65 new subsections 2(a), which relates to other offences, and 2(b), which relates to grounds on which people might be discriminated against.
The changes are needed as a result of other amendments that we have just debated. They take account of the new procedure whereby the Lord President may deprive a judicial officer of office, and the new power of the commission in respect of insolvency events.