Further memorandum from Sir Peter Large
CBE (DDB 108)
DRAFT DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION BILL—SUGGESTIONS
FOR CHANGES
EVIDENCE FROM
SIR PETER
LARGE—EXTRA
1. Clause 15—Councillors and members
of the Greater London Authority—"Relationships between
locally-electable authorities and their members."
1.1 The provisions appear to be generally
consistent with others in the Act but unfortunately subsection
15B(3) apparently rules out protection against possible discrimination
in the three areas where its occurrence is most likely to cause
upset:
1.1.1 not being appointed to an office of
the authority;
1.1.2 not being appointed to, or to an office
of, a committee or sub-committee of the authority; or
1.1.3 not being appointed or nominated in
exercise of any power of the authority, or of a group of bodies
that includes the authority, to appoint, or nominate for appointment,
to any body.
1.2 This is a serious defect in the New
Clause and, with the exception of an election in subsection 15B(3)(a)
therefore, subsection 15B(3) should be deleted. As 15B(4) allows
ample scope to change the application of the provisions through
regulations, possible difficulties associated with this deletion
could swiftly be remedied.
Sir Peter Large OBE FRSA
March 2004
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