Part of Legislation (Territorial Extent) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 27 April 2011.
The clause outlines the principles of legislative territorial clarity, which are that every citizen of the United Kingdom has the right to see how proposed changes to the law will affect them, and that Members of this House have the right to see how proposed changes to the law will affect their constituents. That strengthens and puts on a statutory basis new principles of legislative territorial clarity. I am delighted that on Second Reading, the Minister said he believed those to be sensible principles, and I am sure that it will be hard for anyone to object to them in this debate.