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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2005
This provision was necessary as the scale of harbour dues payable was unknown at the time of the subsidy competition, not least because some new facilities were still to be constructed.
I seek reassurance; I am not sure whether Professor Norrie is my best point of reference on that. If individuals in the circumstances that I have described will not be affected by amendment 1, I will withdraw any opposition to it.
Furthermore, such a position is at odds with article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which requires that in all decisions affecting children, their best interests "shall be a primary consideration."
I would also like to raise my concern about a possible conflict between the attorney's decision and the best clinical judgment. Given what Ben Wallace said about the fact that the present arrangements leave many incapable adults open to financial and medical abuse, I was uncomfortable when Sheila McLean said that incapacity was a legal definition rather tha...
The present mechanism is that a question from each of them heads the list. That is the best way to do it. Therefore, two of the six questions would be automatically chosen.