Clause 6. — (Provisions as to Orders in Council.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Minister of Works and Planning Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 2 June 1942.

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—and that is why it has seemed to me to be a little pedantic that we should trouble ourselves with so small a point. Let me add that I do not think the hon. Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams) was correct in saying that an Order in Council cannot be challenged. Such an Order in Council would rest on this Bill—or Act—and if anything is done by the Order in Council which goes beyond the authority given by the Bill then surely a court would declare the Order to be ultra vires.