Example sentences of "necessary understand [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Allowing the taxpayers ' appeal , Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson held that in construing a piece of legislation , reference to Parliamentary materials , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , is permissible where three criteria are met : the legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; the material relied on consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill , together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; the statements relied on are clear . |
2 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) that , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , the rule excluding reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to statutory construction should be relaxed so as to permit such reference where ( a ) legislation was ambiguous or obscure or led to absurdity , ( b ) the material relied upon consisted of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as was necessary to understand such statements and their effect and ( c ) the statements relied upon were clear ( post , pp. 1039C , G , 1040B , D–E , 1042C–D , H — 1043A , 1056A–C , 1061E–F , 1063F–G ) . |
3 | I therefore reach the conclusion , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , that the exclusionary rule should be relaxed so as to permit reference to Parliamentary materials where ( a ) legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; ( b ) the material relied upon consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; ( c ) the statements relied upon are clear . |
4 | ‘ permit reference to parliamentary materials where ( a ) legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; ( b ) the material relied upon consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; ( c ) the statements relied upon are clear . ’ |
5 | Pepper v. Hart ( i ) admits statements by a minister or other promoter of a Bill , where the resultant statute is ambiguous , obscure or leads to an absurdity ; however , ( ii ) the statements must be ‘ clear ’ and ( iii ) may be supported by other parliamentary material ‘ as is necessary to understand such statements ’ . |
6 | The second element of the formulation by Lord Browne-Wilkinson of the relaxed exclusionary rule is that ‘ the material relied upon consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ’ . |
7 | Contextual parliamentary material is only admissible to the extent necessary to understand parliamentary statements establishing parliamentary intent . |