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Forth Estuary Transport Authority Order 2002 (Draft)
Next we come to this week's deliberate mistake, the Forth Estuary Transport Authority Order 2002 (Draft), which should, of course, refer to the Firth of Forth.
Sorry?
I am making the point that we should call the nearby body of water by its correct name, rather than calling it the Forth estuary.
I think that you need to get out more, Margo.
These small things are important.
As the song says,
The Executive's use of the word estuary is a deliberate mistake. I am sure that the fact that some parts of the order raise serious questions of vires is not a deliberate mistake. Perhaps the Executive has been over-ambitious in attempting to cover amendments to three or four acts, some of which are now redundant, in one instrument. It is possible that the Executive has not pulled that off. The powers in the order include powers to set tolls. They allow the new authority to take on many of the attributes of a local authority. It is important legislation and there are serious questions that we should raise with the Executive.
We need to write to the Executive and ask it to explain what provisions it considers to provide the vires for the sections about which we are concerned, of which there are a number.
Such as article 6 and schedule 1.
Yes.
We are also concerned about paragraph 2 of schedule 3.
Paragraph 2 of schedule 3 concerns the creation of a criminal offence. We are raising serious questions about important stuff, Gordon.
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