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EnactedRoyal Assentc. 30

Digital Economy Act 2017

This bill became lawView the statute on acthub →c. 30 · 27 Apr 2017

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  • Bill 45 2016-17, as introducedBill · 05 Jul 2016download soon
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Amendments 57

Committee stage — Lords 20

NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#4833
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

after “services” insert “and mobile network coverage”

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, Lord Foster of Bath, Lord Clement-Jones#4834
NotMovedClause 3EditBillBody

after “obligation” insert “within reasonable timescales”

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#4835
WithdrawnClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord Stevenson of BalmacaraSponsor: Lord Foster of Bath#5420
NotMovedClause 3AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “National roaming

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5436
NotMovedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5437
NotMovedClause 3EditBillBody

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;”.

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5438
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

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.”

Moved: Baroness JankeSponsor: Lord Clement-Jones#5547
NotMovedClause 3AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5558
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5560
NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5561
NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5581
WithdrawnClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5582
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

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—

Moved: Lord FoxSponsor: Lord Clement-Jones#5595
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

leave out “may” and insert “must”

Moved: Baroness Byford#5726
NotMovedClause 3EditBillBody

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”

Moved: Lord Gordon of Strathblane#5765
NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5770
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#5785
WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord FoxSponsor: Lord Foster of Bath#5832
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

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—

Moved: Baroness Byford#5856

Report stage — Lords 20

WithdrawnClause 1EditBillBody

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.”

Moved: Baroness JankeSponsor: Lord Fox, Lord Clement-Jones#6074
AgreedClause 1EditBillBody

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—

Moved: Lord MendelsohnSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, Lord Fox, Lord Clement-Jones#6088
NotMovedClause 1EditBillBody

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.

Moved: Lord FoxSponsor: Lord Clement-Jones#6167
NotMovedClause 1AddClauseOrSchedule

Insert the following new Clause— “Annual report to Parliament

Moved: Lord FoxSponsor: Lord Foster of Bath#6169
WithdrawnClause 8AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord Stevenson of BalmacaraSponsor: Lord Grantchester, Lord Fox, Lord Clement-Jones#6177
AgreedClause 2AddClauseOrSchedule

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

Moved: Lord FoxSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, Lord Mendelsohn, Lord Clement-Jones#6200
WithdrawnClause 17EditBillBody

leave out “may” and insert “must”

Moved: Baroness Jones of WhitchurchSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, Lord Clement-Jones#6633
NotMovedClause 17EditBillBody

leave out “any person, or any”

Moved: Baroness Jones of WhitchurchSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#6635
AgreedClause 15EditBillBody

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.

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6640
AgreedClause 15EditBillBody

leave out subsection (2)

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6641
AgreedClause 15EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6642
AgreedClause 17EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6643
AgreedClause 17EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6644
AgreedClause 18EditBillBody

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—

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6645
AgreedClause 15EditBillBody

leave out subsection (3)

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6654
AgreedClause 16EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6675
AgreedClause 16EditBillBody

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—

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6676
AgreedClause 15EditBillBody

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.”

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#6741
DisagreedClause 17EditBillBody

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).

Moved: Baroness Jones of WhitchurchSponsor: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara#6798
NotMovedClause 17EditBillBody

In paragraph (b), leave out “sufficiently”

Moved: Lord Clement-JonesSponsor: Lord Paddick#6801

3rd reading — Lords 17

AgreedClause 10DeleteClauseOrSchedule

Leave out Clause 10

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7040
AgreedClause 16EditBillBody

leave out paragraph (b)

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7041
AgreedClause 19EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7042
AgreedClause 20EditBillBody

leave out “a” and insert “any other”

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7043
AgreedClause 23EditBillBody

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.”

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7044
AgreedClause 24EditBillBody

leave out “the” and insert “a”

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7045
AgreedClause 24EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7046
AgreedClause 37EditBillBody

leave out subsections (3) to (5)

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7047
AgreedClause 113EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7048
AgreedClause 114EditBillBody

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.

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7049
AgreedClause 119EditBillBody

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.”

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7050
AgreedSchedule 1EditBillBody

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),”

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7051
AgreedSchedule 1EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7052
AgreedSchedule 1EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7053
AgreedSchedule 2EditBillBody

leave out “12” and insert “14”

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7054
AgreedSchedule 2EditBillBody

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

Moved: Lord Ashton of Hyde#7055
AgreedClause 3EditBillBody

leave out “switch” and insert “roam”

Moved: Lord Stevenson of BalmacaraSponsor: Lord Fox#7056