Clause 18 - Meaning of ''emergency''
Civil Contingencies Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
As the Under-Secretary knows, amendment No. 78 addresses, in part, the interrelationship between subsection (2)(e) and (h). Threatened
disruption to health services, money, food, water, energy or fuel is covered under paragraphs (e) and (h). However, why would we want a situation involving an electronic or other system of communication, such as an internet virus or other communications disruption, covered unless it involved the disruption of one of the other things—supplies, money, food, the health system? In other words, what is the case for having
''disruption of an electronic or other system''
listed on its own as an emergency trigger?