Clause 4 - Subordinate legislation
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
10:30 am
Oliver Heald (Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs & Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Assisted By Shadow Solicitor General), Constitutional Affairs; North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
I read amendment No. 23 as saying that Ministers should not be given functions that were previously fulfilled by professions or trade unions—in other words, that if there is no provision and a trade union or a profession regulates itself, or if there is provision for those bodies to regulate themselves, it should not be possible under subsection (1) to take that function from the body and give it to the Minister.