Clause 32 - Meaning of ''permit scheme''
Traffic Management Bill
4:45 pm
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne, Conservative)
I shall speak to amendment No. 185. In debates of this sort, the Minister, and other Ministers, has told me that my amendments are
unnecessary, repetitive, and otiose or whatever else he wants to call it. However, I have never managed to achieve the heights of unnecessary verbiage that I find in subsection (3), which states:
''In this section ''specified'' means specified''.
Golly gosh! Really? How exciting. It goes on:
''or of a description specified''.
Even more golly gosh. What on earth are we doing by saying, ''In this Act, a word we use means the word we use.''? It is barmy beyond belief.
Mr. McNulty rose—