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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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As published

250 Rules.

(1) The Secretary of State may make rules for regulating the procedure to be followed in connection with any proceeding before the comptroller under this Part. (2) Rules may, in particular, make provision— (a) prescribing forms; (b) requiring fees to be paid; (c) authorising the rectification of irregularities of procedure; (d) regulating the mode of giving evidence and empowering the comptroller to compel the attendance of witnesses and the discovery of and production of documents; (e) providing for the appointment of advisers to assist the comptroller in proceedings before him; (f) prescribing time limits for doing anything required to be done (and providing for the alteration of any such limit); and (g) empowering the comptroller to award costs and to direct how, to what party and from what parties, costs are to be paid. (3) Rules prescribing fees require the consent of the Treasury. (4) The remuneration of an adviser appointed to assist the comptroller shall be determined by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury and shall be defrayed out of money provided by Parliament. (5) Rules shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Your change, as a redline

250 Rules.

(1) The Secretary of State may make rules for regulating the procedure to be followed in connection with any proceeding before the comptroller under this Part. (2) Rules may, in particular, make provision— (a) prescribing forms; (b) requiring fees to be paid; (c) authorising the rectification of irregularities of procedure; (d) regulating the mode of giving evidence and empowering the comptroller to compel the attendance of witnesses and the discovery of and production of documents; (e) providing for the appointment of advisers to assist the comptroller in proceedings before him; (f) prescribing time limits for doing anything required to be done (and providing for the alteration of any such limit); and (g) empowering the comptroller to award costs and to direct how, to what party and from what parties, costs are to be paid. (3) Rules prescribing fees require the consent of the Treasury. (4) The remuneration of an adviser appointed to assist the comptroller shall be determined by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury and shall be defrayed out of money provided by Parliament. (5) Rules shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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