Amendments — Digital Economy Act 2017

Proposed amendments

57 amendments across 19 provisions

Clause 1 17

Amendment #4833#4833Not movedNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“Review of Broadband Delivery UK

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 1

Amendment #4834#4834WithdrawnAmends text

Amendment text

after “services” insert “and mobile network coverage”

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #5547#5547WithdrawnAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
If the universal service order says that broadband connections and services must be provided to any extent, it must require the provision of a social tariff for broadband services which has the aim of preventing digital exclusion.”

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #5560#5560WithdrawnAmends text

Amendment text

leave out lines 11 and 12 and insert—
The universal service order shall say that broadband connections and services must be provided—

The Bills API publishes only the tabling instruction here, not the inserted text itself — the full wording is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #5561#5561Not movedNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“SMEs: universal service broadband obligations

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 1

Amendment #5581#5581Not movedNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“Duties to progress universal service broadband obligation

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 1

Amendment #5582#5582WithdrawnNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“Universal service broadband obligation: fair and competitive market

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 1

Amendment #5595#5595Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out lines 11 and 12 and insert—
The universal service order must specify that, by 2020, the following will be available in every household in the United Kingdom—

The Bills API publishes only the tabling instruction here, not the inserted text itself — the full wording is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #5726#5726Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “may” and insert “must”

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #5770#5770Not movedNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“Broadband universal service obligation: rural areas

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 1

Amendment #5785#5785Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
Any excess costs associated with subsection (2B) shall not be paid by users of communication service providers.”

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #5832#5832WithdrawnAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
“72B Universal service order: annual report

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #5856#5856Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out lines 11 and 12 and insert—
The universal service order shall say that broadband connections and services must be provided to any extent—

The Bills API publishes only the tabling instruction here, not the inserted text itself — the full wording is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #6074#6074WithdrawnAmends text

Amendment text

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #6088#6088AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out lines 4 and 5 and insert—
The universal service order must specify that the target for broadband connections and services to be provided before 2020 must have—

The Bills API publishes only the tabling instruction here, not the inserted text itself — the full wording is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #6167#6167Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out lines 4 and 5 and insert—
The United Kingdom’s broadband network has a medium term objective of full fibre to the premises and gigabit levels of connectivity.

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 1

Amendment #6169#6169Not movedNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“Annual report to Parliament

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Report stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 1

Clause 2 3

Amendment #5420#5420WithdrawnNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“Bill limits for mobile phone contracts

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 2

Amendment #5437#5437Not movedNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“General conditions: mobile switching

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 2

Amendment #6200#6200AgreedNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“Bill limits for mobile phone contracts

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Report stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 2

Clause 3 6

Amendment #4835#4835Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

after “obligation” insert “within reasonable timescales”

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 3

Amendment #5436#5436Not movedNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“National roaming

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 3

Amendment #5438#5438Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
require telecommunications service providers supplying a contract relating to a handheld mobile telephone to pay compensation to a user for failing to meet a specified standard or obligation;”.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 3

Amendment #5558#5558Not movedNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“Separation of Openreach from BT

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Committee stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 3

Amendment #5765#5765Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

after “obligation” insert “, permit the end-user to roam (at no extra charge) to other providers which do meet the specified standard or obligation, or deem the contract to have been terminated by a consistent breach”

Stage: Committee stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 3

Amendment #7056#7056AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “switch” and insert “roam”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 3

Clause 8 1

Amendment #6177#6177WithdrawnNew clause / schedule

Amendment text

Insert the following new Clause—
“OFCOM power to impose caps upon wireless telegraphy licenses

Only the heading is published via the Bills API — the full text of this new clause/schedule is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Report stage
Type: AddClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 8

Clause 10 1

Amendment #7040#7040AgreedRemoves provision

Amendment text

Leave out Clause 10

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: DeleteClauseOrSchedule
Clause: 10

Clause 15 5

Amendment #6640#6640AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
The Secretary of State may make regulations specifying, for the purposes of this Part, circumstances in which material is or is not to be regarded as made available on a commercial basis.

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 15

Amendment #6641#6641AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out subsection (2)

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 15

Amendment #6642#6642AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
Regulations under subsection (2A) may make different provision for different purposes.

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 15

Amendment #6654#6654AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out subsection (3)

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 15

Amendment #6741#6741AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out subsection (1) and insert—
A person contravenes this subsection if the person makes pornographic material available on the internet to persons in the United Kingdom on a commercial basis other than in a way that secures that, at any given time, the material is not normally accessible by persons under the age of 18.”

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 15

Clause 16 3

Amendment #6675#6675AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

before “means” insert “(except in the expression “extreme pornographic material”)”

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 16

Amendment #6676#6676AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
a video work that the video works authority has determined not to be suitable for a classification certificate to be issued in respect of it, if—

The Bills API publishes only the tabling instruction here, not the inserted text itself — the full wording is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 16

Amendment #7041#7041AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out paragraph (b)

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 16

Clause 17 6

Amendment #6633#6633WithdrawnAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “may” and insert “must”

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 17

Amendment #6635#6635Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “any person, or any”

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 17

Amendment #6643#6643AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “this Part” and insert “—
all of the functions of the age-verification regulator under this Part, or

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 17

Amendment #6644#6644AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out from “that” to end of line 9 and insert “—
arrangements will be maintained by the age-verification regulator for appeals to which subsection (4A) applies, and

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 17

Amendment #6798#6798DisagreedAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
In designating two or more persons under subsection (1), the Secretary of State must specify that the same persons may not carry out functions under the sections specified in subsection (9), and the functions specified in subsection (10).

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 17

Amendment #6801#6801Not movedAmends text

Amendment text

In paragraph (b), leave out “sufficiently”

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 17

Clause 18 1

Amendment #6645#6645AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out subsection (1) and insert—
Where the Secretary of State proposes to make a designation under section 17 , the Secretary of State must lay before both Houses of Parliament—

The Bills API publishes only the tabling instruction here, not the inserted text itself — the full wording is set out in the marshalled Amendment Paper.

Stage: Report stage
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 18

Clause 19 1

Amendment #7042#7042AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “the House of Commons and the House of Lords” and insert “each House of Parliament”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 19

Clause 20 1

Amendment #7043#7043AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “a” and insert “any other”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 20

Clause 23 1

Amendment #7044#7044AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
For the purposes of subsection (5)(b), a means of accessing the internet does not include a device or other equipment for doing so.”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 23

Clause 24 2

Amendment #7045#7045AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “the” and insert “a”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 24

Amendment #7046#7046AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out line 21 and insert—
““video works authority” means a person designated under section 4(1) of the Video Recordings Act 1984;”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 24

Clause 37 1

Amendment #7047#7047AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out subsections (3) to (5)

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 37

Clause 113 1

Amendment #7048#7048AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
such representatives of persons likely to be affected by the regulations as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate, and

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 113

Clause 114 1

Amendment #7049#7049AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out subsection (2) and insert—
A statutory instrument containing regulations under section 112(1) or (5) may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 114

Clause 119 1

Amendment #7050#7050AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

at end insert—
““undertaking” includes anything that may be the subject of a transfer or service provision change, whether or not the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/246) apply.”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Clause: 119

Schedule 1 3

Amendment #7051#7051AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “on, under or over other land” and insert “kept on, under or over other land in exercise of a right mentioned in paragraph 13(1),”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Schedule: 1

Amendment #7052#7052AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out from second “the” to “interferes” in line 45 and insert “apparatus”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Schedule: 1

Amendment #7053#7053AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “of the land on which the tree is growing”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Schedule: 1

Schedule 2 2

Amendment #7054#7054AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out “12” and insert “14”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Schedule: 2

Amendment #7055#7055AgreedAmends text

Amendment text

leave out from “any” to end of line 27 and insert “application or order made under paragraph 6 of the existing code.”

Stage: 3rd reading
Type: EditBillBody
Schedule: 2

EnactedDigital Economy Act 2017

Clause 1 17

Clause 2 3

Clause 3 6

Clause 8 1

Clause 10 1

Clause 15 5

Clause 16 3

Clause 17 6

Clause 18 1

Clause 19 1

Clause 20 1

Clause 23 1

Clause 24 2

Clause 37 1

Clause 113 1

Clause 114 1

Clause 119 1

Schedule 1 3

Schedule 2 2