Clause 54 - Instructing or causing discrimination
Equality Bill [Lords]
Public Bill Committees, 6 December 2005, 5:15 pm
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Beaconsfield, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 127, in clause 54, page 35, line 27, leave out subsection (3).
I have nothing against the clause, but is there a difference between causing and inducing someone to do something? In fact, I probably made a mistake in my amendment: if any subsection needs to be deleted, it is subsection (2), because I think that inducing encompasses causing, although it is just arguable that causing does not encompass inducing. Whichever way round it is, I should be jolly grateful if the Minister would tell me why both subsections (2) and (3) are thought necessary. There is perhaps a certain amount of overkill here. If a person induces, or attempts to induce, someone to do something, they are causing, or attempting to cause, someone to do something.