Government of Wales Bill

That is a different matter altogether, my Lords. A major error would mean that the Assembly, in its due scrutiny of the issue, would have made a mistake that the Secretary of State, in examining the measure before he sees it move on to an Order in Council, did not see. I merely make the obvious point: we do not make major mistakes of that kind in legislation. But if we did, there would be legal redress. The law as then enacted would be challengeable in the courts. While of course we would not deny the right of any British citizen to take an issue to court and seek a judgment in his favour if he had been arraigned as the result of a major error, we are talking about technical slips—that is the purpose behind these provisions.