Clause 52 - Discriminatory practices
Equality Bill [Lords]
5:15 pm
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Beaconsfield, Conservative)
It is noteworthy that, in subsection (2), ''likely'' has not been used. The Government have not suggested that the CEHR should be able to intervene when it thinks that someone is adopting or maintaining
''a practice or arrangement in accordance with which in certain circumstances a practice would be''
likely to be
''operated in contravention of subsection (1).''
There was clearly hesitation about extending the meaning to ''probable'' in that case. There has to be certainty. That is one reason why I thought it right to seek to amend subsection (1). Would the Minister like to comment on that?