Clause 21 - Scope of emergency regulations
Civil Contingencies Bill
2:45 pm
Mr John Horam (Orpington, Conservative)
I understand the purpose of the provision—the Government are trying to give a direction perhaps to help a judge or the judiciary at a later stage if the provision is ever contested—but is that not an odd way to use legislation? I have never thought that legislation was bound to include lots of examples of the way in which it might work. I am not a lawyer, but I would have thought that that is an odd way in which to make law. It would inevitably make legislation more verbose than it would otherwise be.