Clause 24 - Omission of reference to Maundy Thursday
Electoral Administration Bill
6:30 pm
David Heath (Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs & Shadow Leader of the House, Law Officers (Constitutional Affairs); Somerton and Frome, Liberal Democrat)
That is my problem. I have nothing against removing Maundy Thursday from the list of countable days and if I can avoid the rest of the speech that the Minister prepared in case there were any objections, I shall be delighted. I am simply saying that the clause does not remove Maundy Thursday from the list; part 4 of schedule 1 does that. Apparently, all that the clause does is draw attention to another area of the Bill.