UK Parliament / Open data

Dog Control Bill [HL]

My Lords, I notice that paragraph 3 of the Schedule says that the, "““database operator must … provide the information in section 6 free of charge to authorised third parties during all normal working hours””." That sounds perfectly reasonable. However, if you go on to sub-paragraph (3)—I am referring to a point I made about the word ““appropriate”” in a debate on an earlier Clause—it says, ““any police constable””, or, more importantly, "““any representative of the Secretary of State; or .. any representative of the local authority””." If a national authority has to be ““appropriate”” in one part of the Bill, surely it should be ““appropriate”” in the other. I believe that it should be appropriate in neither.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
725 c1311 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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