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Also, if a minister were to break the code this would further increase confidence that sanctions given to the minister are appropriate as they would have broken the code despite making a prior oath to abide by it.
He was “aware” of the evidence the Committee had received and receptive to any suggestions for tightening up this part of the Bill—
…we have also become aware of the potential to augment part 6 to ensure that the rights are recorded transparently and are accessible, as Professor Paisley alluded to in his evidence.
It is also worth saying that it is possible for the commissioner to not set aside but relax any provision in the code—that is built into the code itself.