Clause 2 - Individuals entered in Register
Identity Cards Bill
1:30 pm
Tony McNulty (Minister of State (Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality), Home Office; Harrow East, Labour)
Yes. The subsection flows; we do not have to put “or”s all over the place—the “or” is automatically assumed. It was interesting earlier to hear a very eminent lawyer attack the English language as it appears in UK legislation, but I shall let that pass. I am told that the legalese is such that the “or” at the end of paragraph (b) implies an “or” at the end of paragraph (a). It is “or”, “or”, “or”; the three are not linked together by an “or” or an “and”.