Clause 21 - Scope of emergency regulations
Civil Contingencies Bill
2:45 pm
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
Surely the purpose of subsection (2) is that it should be read with subsection (1) and that the sort of actions that are covered by any provision in the first line of subsection (1) are given an element of definition by subsection (2). Otherwise, the removal of the protection and restoration of economic and political structures would make no difference, but it must make a difference. Surely one must read a provision on the basis that it is any provision of this sort of class—the protecting or restoring of supply services or property or, in the case of human beings, treating injury and illness. In other words, one cannot say that subsection (2) is simply illustrative: it provides part of the definition of any provision.