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Protection of Freedoms Bill

I thank the noble Lord for that. I hope I can deal with some of his queries, and I hope I can assure him that I do not believe that the drafting here is opaque in any way whatever. When we look at Clause 33(5), it is pretty clear that we have all the classes listed in paragraphs (a) to (j), including the Council of the Isles of Scilly, the Common Council of the City of London and, in effect, all local authorities. Then we have paragraph (k), which states, "““any person specified or described by the Secretary of State in an order made by statutory instrument””." That is as clear as clear could be that it can be extended by the Secretary of State after consultation with the appropriate people who might be affected. Those people could be public, they could be private, or whatever.

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Reference

733 c318GC 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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