I shall seek to be as brief as possible. In the schedule that lays out the powers we are transferring—schedule 5, I think—it is quite clear that we are substantially giving primary law-making powers to the Assembly. It may be called an Order in Council, but the Assembly Measure is a primary law-making power that we are, without referendum, shedding to the Assembly, and disguising by calling it an Order in Council.
If the Minister wants to persuade me that I am wrong about that, I shall listen, but I shall take a lot of convincing. He is simply dressing up a primary legislative function as something else and saying that we need not worry about it because it is not a primary legislative function, when it plainly is.
Government of Wales Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Dominic Grieve
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 23 January 2006.
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and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Government of Wales Bill.
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