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Amendment 164 provides a defence in respect of each of the new offences that will be created under section 15(1)(a) and new section 15(1)(c) and under section 15(2)(a) and new section 15(2)(c).
To withhold food and water would not be treatment"to safeguard or promote the physical or mental health"of an adult with incapacity, and thus is not authorised under the bill.The new Labour slogan "For the many not the few" was referred to.