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Government of Wales Bill

Proceeding contribution from Nick Ainger (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 July 2006. It occurred during Debate on bills on Government of Wales Bill.
I cannot use those terms, because it is not possible to use them. I can only tell the hon. Gentleman that the rights of the individual, about which everyone is concerned, will be protected by the very process of the Orders in Council. People are rightly concerned, but as I have said, the provision has been used only once in Scotland since 1998, and it is intended to deal with technical defects. I think that we have got hung up on the example given by Lord Kingsland. I do not know whether it is such a good example. I have responded to what he said about a bypass and compulsory purchase. There is no way in which an individual’s rights would be overturned, and a demand be made that he pay back the money. The Government and the Assembly will certainly take the individual’s rights into account, although there may well be rare occasions on which action must be taken for the sake of the wider public good.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
449 c227 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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