It's fairly self explanatory

Database code

SELECT (well, that selects) * (wildcard meaning relevant data) FROM (tells it that where the data is coming from is the next bit) [dbo].[Post] (it's coming from a table called Post) WHERE (tells it that conditions are coming) [PostId] (Tells it that the conditions is on the PostId column) != (does not equal) 2369638 (The number of the mental post)

Far easier to read than law

"23. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a contracting authority shall treat as ineligible and shall not select an economic operator in accordance with these Regulations if the contracting authority has actual knowledge that the economic operator or its directors or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the economic operator has been convicted of any of the following offences?

(2) In any case where an economic operator or its directors or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control has been convicted of an offence described in paragraph (1), a contracting authority may disregard the prohibition described there if it is satisfied that there are overriding requirements in the general interest which justify doing so in relation to that economic operator."

Why not just say in paragraph (1) "a contracting authority may" instead of shall and then delete paragraph 2? But no. We have to say shall then give exactly the same discretion in tortuous language.

Posted By: Johnny Comecardiff, Sep 30, 11:09:16