"John Woodgate" <j...@jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > This *might* be significant in the UK, because the parliamentary > draftsmen who interpret the Directives as Statutory Instruments, under > the guidance of Ministers, have been accused of 'gold-plating' the > Directives, i.e. 'stretching' the provisions in the direction of higher > stringency. This criticism may be justified, but it may also be balanced > by an official reluctance to prosecute unless advice and warnings are > disregarded.
But John, isn't that simply the method for all statutes? Aren't officials allowed to follow the letter of the law OR demand a stricter interpretation (within reasonable limits) rather than a weakened interpretation? Regards, Doug McKean ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
