Clause 80 - Orders and regulations
Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill
2:35 pm
Mrs Anne McIntosh (Shadow Minister, Environment and Transport; Vale of York, Conservative)
With the greatest respect to the Minister, subsection (1) states:
''This section applies to a power conferred on the appropriate person under any provision of this Chapter to make an order or regulations.''
It is therefore important that we should be clear about the extent of those regulations. We should also be clear about concerns such as who any ''other persons'' should be.
Some of the new technologies used will defeat the purpose of entering premises either with or without the use of force. For example, the effects of a smoke bomb might negate any efforts to go in, and set off other alarms. I wanted to place on the record that it is extremely important for both Houses of Parliament to consider how the power under clause 80 will be deemed to be exercisable by any subsequent statutory instrument.