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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

I will defend my drafting in one respect at least. I grant the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, his point that I should perhaps have said something about the LBRO’s ““relevant functions”” in drafting the amendment. That is clearly what I had in mind and what I think the noble Lord, Lord Haskins, had in mind on that occasion. On ““must give advice”” rather than ““may””, I was following the precedent of Clause 9(2), which concerns advice to a Minister, rather than Clause 9(1), which concerns advice that the LBRO chooses to give.