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Legal Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness but does she not agree with me that there is an inconsistency in what she has just said to your Lordships' House? In my contention the override clause would provide clarity but in her opinion it would provide inconsistency. If that is the case, surely the current provisions in the Bill are in consistent. How is it that an override clause, which in the noble Baroness’s submission exactly reflects the balance that is in the Bill, can do something different from the balance that is in the Bill?