Clause 79 - Powers of entry: supplementary
Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill
11:15 am
Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley, Conservative)
I want to make a similar point about clause 79(5)(b). Will the Minister say why he feels it necessary to have brackets around
''(so far as is reasonably practicable)''?
The subsection says that the officer must leave the premises
''as effectively secured against entry as he found them.''
I assume that the officer entering the premises to silence the alarm is not going to cause more damage than they reasonably need to. On the point about securing the premises on leaving them, the point of having an alarm is that people want to protect their premises. The last thing that they would want is to find out that when the alarm—
It being twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock, The Chairman, adjourned the Committee without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
Adjourned till this day at half-past Two o'clock.