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(a) | a financial cost; |
(b) | an administrative inconvenience; |
(c) | an obstacle to efficiency, productivity or profitability; or |
(d) | a sanction, criminal or otherwise, for doing or not doing anything in the course of any activity. |
(5) For the purposes of subsection (2), a financial cost or administrative inconvenience may result from the form of any legislation (for example, where the legislation is hard to understand).
(6) In this section "legislation" means any of the following or a provision of any of the following
(a) | a public general Act or local Act (whether passed before or after the commencement of this section), or |
(b) | any Order in Council, order, rules, regulations, scheme, warrant, byelaw or other subordinate instrument made at any time under an Act referred to in paragraph (a), |
(7) Subject to this Part, the provision that may be made under subsection (1) includes
(a) | provision conferring functions on any person (including functions of legislating or functions relating to the charging of fees), |
(b) | provision modifying the functions conferred on any person by any enactment, |
(c) | provision transferring, or providing for the transfer or delegation of, the functions conferred on any person by any enactment, |
(d) | provision abolishing a body or office established by or under an enactment, |
(8) An order under this section may contain such consequential, supplementary, incidental or transitional provision (including provision made by amending or repealing any enactment or other provision) as the Minister making it considers appropriate.
(9) An order under this section may bind the Crown.
(10) An order under this section must be made in accordance with this Part.'.
As Amendments to Hilary Armstrong's proposed New Clause (Power to remove or reduce burdens) (NC19):
Mr David Heath
David Howarth
(a)
Line 2, after 'he', insert 'reasonably'.
Mr Christopher Chope
(b)
Line 3, leave out second 'or' and insert 'and'.
Mr Christopher Chope
(c)
Line 17, leave out from 'means' to end of line 23 and insert 'a public general Act'.
Mr David Heath
David Howarth
(d)
Line 28, leave out 'functions of legislating or'.
Mr David Heath
David Howarth
(e)
Line 36, at end insert'(7A) Provision made under subsection (7)(a) may only confer functions relating to the function of legislating to the extent permitted by section [Sub-delegated legislative functions].'.
Hilary Armstrong
NC20
To move the following Clause:'(1) A Minister of the Crown may by order under this section make any provision which he considers would serve the purpose in subsection (2).
(2) That purpose is securing that regulatory functions are exercised so as to comply with the principles in subsection (3).
(3) Those principles are that
(a) | regulatory activities should be carried out in a way which is transparent, accountable, proportionate and consistent; |
(b) | regulatory activities should be targeted only at cases in which action is needed. |
(a) | provision modifying the way in which a regulatory function is exercised by any person, |
(b) | provision amending the constitution of a body exercising regulatory functions which is established by or under under an enactment, |
(c) | provision transferring, or providing for the transfer or delegation of, the regulatory functions conferred on any person, |
(d) | provision creating a new body to which, or a new office to the holder of which, functions are transferred under paragraph (c), |
(e) | provision abolishing a body or office established by or under an enactment, |
(5) An order under this section may contain such consequential, supplementary, incidental or transitional provision (including provision made by amending or repealing any enactment or other provision) as the Minister making it considers appropriate.
(6) An order under this section may bind the Crown.
(7) An order under this section must be made in accordance with this Part.'.
Hilary Armstrong
NC21
To move the following Clause:'(1) A Minister of the Crown may by order under this section make any provision which he considers would serve the purpose in subsection (2).
(2) That purpose is the implementation of recommendations of any one or more of the United Kingdom Law Commissions, with or without changes.
(3) In this Part "the United Kingdom Law Commissions" means
(a) | the Law Commission; |
(b) | the Scottish Law Commission; and |
(c) | the Northern Ireland Law Commission. |
(a) | provision amending or abolishing any rule of law, |
(b) | provision codifying rules of law, |
(c) | provision conferring functions on any person (including functions of legislating or functions relating to the charging of fees), |
(d) | provision modifying the functions conferred on any person by any enactment, |
(e) | provision transferring, or providing for the transfer or delegation of, the functions conferred on any person by any enactment, |
(f) | provision abolishing a body or office established by or under an enactment, |
(5) An order under this section may contain such consequential, supplementary, incidental or transitional provision (including provision made by amending or repealing any enactment or other provision) as the Minister making it considers appropriate.
(6) An order under this section may bind the Crown.
(7) An order under this section must be made in accordance with this Part.'.
As Amendments to Hilary Armstrong's proposed New Clause (Power to implement Law Commission recommendations) (NC21):
Mr Greg Knight
Rosemary McKenna
Sir Robert Smith
Mr Eric Illsley
Mr Christopher Chope
Ms Katy Clark
(a)
Line 4, leave out 'with or without changes'.
Mr David Heath
David Howarth
(b)
Line 4, leave out 'with or without changes' and insert 'either without changes or with such changes as are necessary to take into acount any development in the law since the time the recommendations were made.'.
Hilary Armstrong
NC22
To move the following Clause:
Hilary Armstrong
NC26
To move the following Clause:
(a) | this Part; or |
(b) | the Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42).'. |
Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Jonathan Djanogly
Mr Mark Harper
NC1
To move the following Clause:
(a) | simplifying or modernising legislation, |
(b) | making the overall effect of legislation less onerous, or |
(c) | removing inconsistencies or anomalies in legislation.'. |
Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Jonathan Djanogly
Mr Mark Harper
NC2
To move the following Clause:
(a) | removed or reduced any burden, |
(b) | re-enacted any provision having the effect of imposing any burden, in cases where the burden was proportionate to the benefit that was expected to result from such re-enactment, |
(c) | made any new provision having the effect of imposing a burden that has affected any person in the carrying on of the activity, but was proportionate to the benefit that was expected to result from its creation, or |
(d) | removed inconsistencies and anomalies in legislation.'. |
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