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Broads Authority Bill (By Order)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention and the reassurance, on the record, that the legal agreement is legally binding and is genuinely a legal agreement. That is quite important. I have heard it said before that it is a legal agreement, but as a lawyer myself, although I have to confess that my practising certificate has lapsed—[Interruption.] I am not a practising lawyer. As a lawyer myself, I am afraid that I do not yet understand the basis on which the agreement is a legal agreement. I do not understand the status of it as a legal agreement that can be relied on in court. I fully accept what the hon. Gentleman says—nobody wants these matters to go to court—but one has to have a legal agreement to reassure people and to guarantee the rights of people who are concerned about potentially excessive powers.