It is highly dangerous to allow an inexpert local authority to take the responsibility of commenting on a situation so grave as this might be.
I interpose that qualification because you cannot expect somebody wholly inexpert in a particular subject matter to take up a regulation and understand it.
Not a judge—certainly not he, they say, is inexpert.
We are using firms who are quite inexpert in this particular kind of work.
We do not want to have very important duties put upon some minor official, possibly some inexpert young lady doctor.
But if it were used in cases of venereal disease for self-treatment or treatment under inexpert guidance the results would certainly be injurious to health.
The consequence would be that inexpert people would let off displays of quite sophisticated fireworks.
I am not saying that people who are inexpert are completely valueless.