Clause 54 - Instructing or causing discrimination
Equality Bill [Lords]
5:15 pm
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Beaconsfield, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister for his response. I can understand his reasoning, but I did not infer that ''cause'' required the exercise of a power to make something happen. The Minister confirms what I already thought: that inducing encompasses causing. To that extent, what I said originally was right. The phrase
''it is unlawful for a person to induce''
would also cover subsection (2). While I am a great believer in keeping legislation short—the Bill runs to 82 pages—and the impact of the provision might be sufficiently marginal for us not to worry about it. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Clause 54 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 55 ordered to stand part of the Bill.