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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [Lords]

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way again—I appreciate that we have covered the territory previously, but we are considering a specific measure. Under clause 4, the Secretary of State can provide for orders to be made for approximately 200 enactments, some of which are enormously important to running the country. Many emanate from the European Union. Subsection (4) provides that"““The Secretary of State may by order… remove any enactment””" from the list. Given the Minister's answer to my previous question, how can the Secretary of State do that—inconsistently with the European Communities Act—unless the Government include the specific provision, ““Notwithstanding the European Communities Act 1972”” to reassert this Parliament's supremacy?