Glaring Lack of Legislative Support

Posted by Kathryn Maybury on Thursday, 21 March 2024

A post by Kathryn Maybury | Managing Director | KOMSEC Limited | Company Secretarial Services | Corporate Governance | Compliance |

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Glaring lack of legislative support

How is anyone supposed to make the right choice in the glaring absence of appropriate guidelines? How is there such a political and moral vacuum that no-one is addressing this incredibly serious question?

How to buy the right Easter egg?

• General Data Protection Regulations – well that is a disaster as part of GDPR requires one to process data for legitimate purposes specified explicitly to the data subject when you collect it. Are you really going to spoil the surprise by asking the data subject for the right to give them an Easter egg?
  

• Health & Safety – definitely an area best avoided. The amount of potential allergies (nut, lactose, etc) is vast, and this is before we even consider potential injury from flying shards of Easter egg that are cracked with enthusiasm rather than finesse.
  

• Weights & Measures – don’t get me started on this. How am I to figure out the size and weight of an Easter egg when there is such a massive choice. Whatever Government Department is responsible for this is clearly not doing enough – when did it become alright to term Easter eggs shaped like a rabbit?
  

• Cartel – if all our family members buy the same type of Easter eggs have we formed a cartel?
  

• Family – probably the thorniest issue of all as at the end of the day falling foul of legislation is going to be the least of our worries if we don’t buy the right Easter egg.
  

Depending on your age all the above are very serious questions. All I can do is wish you the best of luck when you make your selection. Personally, I don’t even like chocolate and perhaps after this blog neither will you!

HAPPY EASTER

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