Clause 6 - Cancellation of certificate
Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill
7:00 pm
Laurence Robertson (Shadow Minister, Northern Ireland; Tewkesbury, Conservative)
I support the amendment. I would like to take the Committee back to an earlier discussion that we had about the certification commissioner. We discussed an amendment saying that he “may” issue a certificate, but the Minister said that the term must be “must”. However, we have now reached clause , where the word used is “may”, not “must”, which is rather confusing. I suppose that that is in keeping with the enormous inconsistencies in the Bill, but it is not acceptable.