leave out “Scotland” and insert “the United Kingdom”
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Amendments 20
Committee stage — Lords 20
at end insert— “( ) Nothing in this section alters the sovereignty of the United Kingdom Parliament.”
leave out “The Sewel Convention” and insert “Competence of the Scottish Parliament”
after “United Kingdom” insert “, whilst remaining the sovereign Parliament,”
leave out “without the consent of the Scottish Parliament”
after “are” insert “recognised as”
leave out “Scotland voting in a referendum” and insert, “a two-thirds majority in a vote of the House of Commons in which 75 per cent of the members elected by Scottish constituencies voted for abolition"
leave out “normally”
at end insert “, save in times of war or national emergency”
after "Parliament)" insert "in subsection (7) at the beginning insert "Except as provided for in subsection (8),"."
after "legislate" insert "- (a) "
after “matters” insert “, and to alter the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament or the executive competence of the Scottish Government”
leave out lines 9 and 10
leave out lines 11 and 14
leave out lines 15 to 17 and insert— Subsection (1) may only be repealed if—
leave out lines 5 to 7 and insert— “(8) But the Parliament of the United Kingdom may not pass Acts applying to Scotland that make provision about a devolved matter without the consent of the Scottish Parliament.
at end insert— “(2) After section 28 of the Scotland Act 1998 insert—
after first "The" insert "only"
leave out from "is" to "to" in line 12
at end insert "but the decision as to whether or not the circumstances are such as to allow the Parliament of the United Kingdom to legislate with regard to any devolved matter be a decision for that Parliament to take, and shall not be justiciable in any court of law."