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Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

I wonder whether the noble Lord has been paying particular attention to Part 2 of the Explanatory Memorandum, which refers to a number of statements made by the then Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, Sam Gyimah. These statements are intended to reassure the Grand Committee and your Lordships’ House in precisely the sort of terms that the Minister is now referring to. I wonder whether the present Minister takes the same view as the previous Minister, or indeed whether the previous Minister has changed his view. To make the statement at paragraph 2.1:

“In my view there are good reasons for the provisions in this instrument, and I have concluded they are a reasonable course of action”,

may well now be out of date, since we all know that that former Minister takes the view that the proposal that a no-deal solution could in any way be appropriate for our country is absolutely absurd. Should there not have been an updating of this note so that the Grand Committee could at least be informed about the current view of the current Minister? I suspect that the previous Minister now takes a different view.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
795 c13GC 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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