Clause 18 - Local authority companies etc
Local Government Bill
2:45 pm
Mr John Pugh (Southport, Liberal Democrat)
May I make a simple point about the clause? I tried reading subsection (1) several times before I managed to attribute any meaning to it. At first I thought it was tautologous, but eventually I worked out what it meant. It appears to say that the actions of a body covered under subsection (2) are to be treated for the purposes of the chapter as the acts of local authorities. However, it says that in a very cumbersome way, and would not pass a plain English test. Would the Minister consider re-drafting it in a more felicitous fashion?