Member

Finally, the Bill contains sufficient provisions to safeguard the use of the power, including protections to ensure that essential living expenses can be met and that recovery cannot reasonably take place by any other means. There is a definition of reasonableness for hardship in the code of practice. Hardship in the Bill is placed in the context of meeting essential living expenses, which is further described in the code. I refer to paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Bill.