Conditions for making emergency regulations
Civil Contingencies Bill
5:15 pm
Mr Richard Allan (Shadow Spokesperson for the Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office; Sheffield, Hallam, Liberal Democrat)
I shall be brief. Clause 20 is important, in that it is part of the triple lock. To say something nice in closing, it is the bit that looks most like a lock. The way that the first, second and third conditions have been drafted in subsections (2), (3) and (4) is great. This is a congratulatory note for the Government, because this part of the Bill, despite the strictures that my colleague mentioned earlier, is generally well drafted.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 20 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Further consideration adjourned.—[Ms Prentice.]
Adjourned accordingly at twenty-nine minutes past Five o'clock till Thursday 5 February at half-past Two o'clock.