Clause 20 - Restrictions on deputies
Mental Capacity Bill
4:30 pm
Mr Paul Burstow (Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Health; Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
The Minister has been helpful in putting on record the framework in which the exceptional circumstances arise. If the amendments have done no more than prompt that, it was useful to have tabled them. I am sure that some people will still consider this part of the Bill, unamended, as an area for concern because of what it says and the signals that it gives out, but the Minister has said sufficient to
satisfy me and enable me to withdraw the amendment. I might take advice from outside, but he has given a clear exposition of the circumstances in which the limited power would be used. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Clause 20 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 21 to 23 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Further consideration adjourned.—[Ms Bridget Prentice.]
Adjourned accordingly at twenty-four minutes to Five o'clock till Thursday 28 October at half-past Nine o'clock.