Clause 11
Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill
5:30 pm
Mark Prisk (Shadow Minister (Small Businesses and Enterprise), Trade & Industry; Hertford and Stortford, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 15, in clause 11, page 7, line 11, leave out subsection (2).
The amendment is reasonably straightforward. Its purpose is to seek from the Minister the rationale behind the criteria chosen, rather than necessarily to remove any criteria from being chosen. I have a further point related to that. Will a “novel issue”, which is the term highlighted in the clause, have to be entirely new? One thought that occurred to me was whether, if an issue arose in Scotland and then a similar issue arose in Hertfordshire, it would be determined to be novel, not least given the fact that the two locations have different legal systems. Will the Minister clarify exactly what he means by “novel” and what its limits would be?