Member

As related in the explanatory statement to Amendment 39, this amendment takes as its model the Fire Safety Act 2021. We took that course because the Fire Safety Act is the precedent expressly advanced in the delegated powers memorandum as the model for this regulation-making power. But it is not a very exact precedent, because the Fire Safety Act contains a duty to consult and this clause does not. If we are to delegate such an important power to the Minister, an obligation to consult before acting is surely the minimum safeguard that we should require—so let us put it in. I beg to move.