Clause 3 - Preconditions
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
3:30 pm
David Heath (Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs & Shadow Leader of the House, Law Officers (Constitutional Affairs); Somerton and Frome, Liberal Democrat)
I just want to agree with the Minister. The veto is important because it at least provides some sort of check. He could still come to a perverse conclusion, but provided that it were not one that—what is the phrase from the Wednesbury incorporation?—no reasonable person could have come to, he would still be acting within the law.