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b. Contingent.
These are Bills which might during the relevant Session become essential as defined above, for example if a pending court judgement were to put important powers into question. You should make clear in the case of contingent Bills what would be the effect of deferral to a later Session. Bills which may become desirable for some non-technical reasons should be included in the 'programme' or 'uncontroversial' class with a brief explanation at the bottom of the PURPOSE entry of what they depend on.
C.
Programme. These will form the main part of the legislative programme and are Bills which can already be identified as being desirable for enactment in the relevant Session, have a significant political priority and
and can be prepared in good time.
d. Uncontroversial. These are Bills which are desirable for enactment in the relevant Session but are not expected to be controversial in Parliament. It will be assumed that
a Bill in this class is suitable for Second Reading Committee Procedure (see paragraph 8b. below) unless the PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE section specifically records that it is not (in which case you should briefly indicate why not). In the case of a a Bill which might also be suitable for a Private Member, reference to this should be made in the PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE section and a full entry should also be made in the separate schedule covering Bills suitable for offering to Private Members (Annex C).
Priority and Title
3.
Within each class, please number your Bills in the order in which your Department would like to give them priority.
Purpose
4.
as
Please describe the purpose of the Bill as briefly possible, ideally in a single sentence, and then list the various topics to be covered indicating the purpose of each more fully. This list should cover all the topics you would like to be
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