Thank you, Mr. Doherty.
On analysis of this, the amendment, as you point out, causes owners of copying equipment to be reimbursed for copying costs in certain instances. If you turn to the book House of Commons Procedure and Practice, or O'Brien and Bosc, as we commonly call it, it states on page 767:
Since an amendment may not infringe upon the financial initiative of the Crown, it is inadmissible if it imposes a charge on the public treasury, or if it extends the objects or purposes or relaxes the conditions and qualifications specified in the royal recommendation.
It is the opinion of the chair that the reimbursement of copying costs would impose a new charge on the public treasury. Therefore, I have to rule this amendment inadmissible.
Mr. Doherty.