If they are prescribed, one then has discretion to include them. If they were not prescribed, you would not have that discretion. It does not give them entitlement, but it enables the Secretary of State to exercise his or her discretion in their favour.
Identity Cards Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Scotland of Asthal
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 14 December 2005.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Identity Cards Bill.
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