Michael McCarthy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 8:

In page 4, line 35, to delete "not more than" and substitute "on or after the day which is".

This is merely a drafting amendment which is designed to remove an ambiguity in the subsection. As drafted, the subsection provides that a certificate of the Minister must be dated not more than four months prior to the date of the instrument. The provision is somewhat ambiguous and could be open to the interpretation that the certificate must be dated prior to the instrument and also not more than four months prior to it. Amendment No. 8 makes clear that it is perfectly in order to produce a certificate which is dated after the date of the instrument. While I acknowledge the Minister's reply on Committee Stage, we have retabled the amendment to make our intention a little clearer. While our proposed wording is longer than the Minister's, it is clearer.