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Government of Wales Bill

Exactly. In effect, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is saying to me now, all we could do would be to hold a veto. That is certainly not in line with our devolution position, but I thought that it was also the new devolution position of the Conservatives. I come now to the contributions made by hon. Members. I say with the greatest of respect that the hon. Member for Beaconsfield misconceives what the Orders in Council do. They do not change the law, they merely give permission to the Assembly to develop, through the Assembly Measures method, its own law. He said that the Orders in Council changed the law—they do not; they merely give the Assembly permission to carry out those functions.