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Planning and Energy Bill

I thank the Minister for that explanation. I very much sympathise with the view of hon. Member for Hendon that a court would have been very unlikely to have interpreted the Bill as originally drafted as creating in itself a separate order-making power for the very reason that the Minister just outlined, as the Bill does not include any procedure, conditions or limitations relating to such a power. The Bill's original phrasing would have been interpreted as meaning ““under any other enactment””, not just as creating a power by itself. I am grateful for the amendment clarifying that, but I would not accept that a mistake had been made.