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Data Protection Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Lord Pannick (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Monday, 11 December 2017. It occurred during Debate on bills on Data Protection Bill [HL].

Does the Minister also agree that a further answer to the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, is that it is absolutely inevitable that the detailed provisions of the Bill will be, on occasion, the subject of dispute, uncertainty and litigation, and that it would be very helpful to have a statement of principle on what is intended at the commencement of the Bill? This would not be the first time that a Bill has done that. Everybody would then know what the principles were. Of course, the Minister still needs to consider before Third Reading what that statement should be, but that is the point, as I understand it, of government Amendment 1.

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Reference

787 c1387 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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