I am extremely grateful. My hon. Friend is pursuing doggedly what I believe to be a fundamentally and ultimately erroneous assumption, as will be discovered in due course, Does he accept, as everybody else appears to, that this Bill will be within the scope of EU law and that the charter of fundamental rights and the general principle of EU law will continue to apply, and that, as he correctly pointed out when he referred to primary legislation, the only way in which we can avoid running into difficulties with European Court judgments that we do not want—which, clearly, is what the Bill is about—is by using primary legislation, such as this Bill, to disapply the provisions of European law that come through sections 2 and 3 of the European Communities Act, and that it has to be notwithstanding those provisions?
Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill
Proceeding contribution from
William Cash
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 15 July 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill.
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