Clause 20 - Restrictions on deputies
Mental Capacity Bill
4:15 pm
Mr Tim Boswell (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Daventry, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister for giving way again. I want him to understand that my motive in tabling the amendment was to make sure that we had not by accident lost the deputy any common law rights of intervention in an urgent situation. For
example, if someone were loose with a knife in the Committee Room, we would not want a deputy to be inhibited from intervening, because we would all have a common law right to try to prevent someone else from being injured. Perhaps the Minister can deal with that issue, too.