Summary
Since the enactment of the Regulatory Reform Act
2001, 14 regulatory reform orders have been made. Prior to becoming
law, each of these orders was examined by the Regulatory Reform
Committee, firstly in the form of a proposal for an order and
secondly in the form of a draft order. Such examination is required
as part of the two-stage "super-affirmative" procedure
for Parliamentary scrutiny specified in the Regulatory Reform
Act 2001.
This report continues our discussion of the handling
of regulatory reform orders set out in our special report to the
House in October 2002. That report considered the first year of
operation of the 2001 Act; this report considers the second year
of the Act's operation. The Government is committed to carrying
out a limited review of the operation of the Act, and constitutional
and procedural issues associated with it, in April 2004. We will
wish to consider the outcome of that review and report our findings
to the House in due course.
| 
