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We need to keep an eye on the matter. We want to ensure that we get the appropriate information. We also want to ensure that people's rights are being upheld and, even more important, that people's rights are being promoted.
Does he agree that professional, independent money advice is essential in helping people to manage debts and, more important, to avoid getting into debt in the first place, particularly at the hands of unscrupulous lenders?
However, as Gordon Jackson would say, perhaps we should just ask the Executive, and perhaps get an answer.Paragraph 51 of the legal adviser's notes is correct to say that making specific provision runs the risk of casting doubt on a general provision.
I just want to ensure that nobody gets caught out.There are no other issues to raise at this point, so I suspend the meeting until the minister arrives.
We should just leave the two parties to get on with it. They obviously have different views, but there is nothing that we can do to contribute to the resolution of their dilemma.
In article 3, for example, we have to read paragraph (3) in order to understand paragraph (2), and in order to understand paragraph (3), we then have to go on to read paragraph (4). That will not get the order a plain English award.
Somebody could turn up asking for records and might get the reply, "We kept them for a week and then we destroyed them, because we didn't think we needed to keep them for any longer."