Clause 29 - Statutory dispute resolution procedures
Employment Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman is addressing the question of whether secondary legislation is more or less legitimate than primary legislation and I shall not pretend that I have never argued that case. However, my specific point to the Minister was that it would be dishonest to introduce a schedule if the Minister intended soon to use his powers to amend it by order to change it radically and fundamentally. I was asking for an assurance that he had no such intention and, for example and specifically, that he was not minded to replace the schedule before us with the ACAS code as an amended schedule 2.