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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

I am grateful to the Minister for allowing me to intervene again briefly. What is being proposed here is extraordinarily wide-ranging; it is almost terrifying in its proportion. New subsection (4) establishes, ""one or more bodies corporate with the capacity to make their own rules and establish their own procedures … determine the jurisdiction of a body established by the code or, for the purposes of the code, of any other person"." I have never before heard such a wide-ranging power being proposed in a Bill. I say that as a lawyer—and perhaps that means that I will be overcautious, but this is truly extraordinary. Perhaps this could be thought through with some care, in discussion with other Front Benches, between now and Report. The possibility is really quite disproportionate to the powers that we hope will be granted to such bodies corporate.