Clause 6
Equality Bill
10:30 am
Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon, Liberal Democrat)
I am grateful to the Minister, because that is the meat of the issue. I tabled amendment 114, which would take out “long-term” and consequently render that part of schedule 1 ineffective, but amendment 180 probes the question of “likely to recur”. That is perhaps where we can have most of the substantive debate on the group.
Amendment 180 uses the words
“leave out ‘effect is likely to recur’ and insert ‘impairment is of a nature where it, or its effects, is liable to recur’.”
The problem with “likely to recur” is that one is not certain whether one’s particular condition, which is liable to recur, is likely to recur.