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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

I think that I am correct in saying that if a Select Committee was contemplating a recommendation that the process should not be used it would almost certainly be advised by its Clerk that it was not able to make such a recommendation unless it addressed the terms of the legislation. It would be open to the Committee to make a recommendation only if it could demonstrate that it was complying with the conditions put on it. If the Select Committee decided as a matter of parliamentary principle that the process was not appropriate it would receive professional advice from the Clerk that it was not in a position to make a recommendation on that basis.