Amendments proposed to the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, As Amended - continued	House of Commons
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Protection of constitutional arrangements

   

Mr David Heath
David Howarth

NC16

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1)   Provision under Part 1 may not alter the constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom.

    (2)   In subsection (1) above, "constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom" include, but are not limited to—

(a)	the powers of and succession to the Crown;

(b)	the powers and composition of either House of Parliament;

(c)	the basis of election or appointment of Members of either House of Parliament;

(d)	the duration of Parliaments;

(e)	the appointment, powers, duties and obligations of judges or magistrates of any court;

(f)	the devolution settlements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales;

(g)	the establishment or disestablishment of any church or religion;

(h)	the arrangements for local government;

(i)

the fundamental rights and freedoms of those living in the United Kingdom, including rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, the right to jury trial, the right not to be detained without charge, rights concerning nationality or immigration status and the conditions under which any person may be extradited from the United Kingdom;

(j)	the law relating to freedom of information, data protection, the regulation of investigatory powers, the powers and organisation of the police and the powers and organisation of the security services.'.

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Disapplication of European Communities Act 1972 (No. 2)

   

Mr William Cash
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory
Mr Edward Leigh
Mr Richard Shepherd
Sir Peter Tapsell
Mr Nigel Dodds

Mark Pritchard	Mr Michael Fallon	Mr Philip Dunne
Mr David Burrowes	Mr Charles Walker	Mr Lee Scott
Mr Stewart Jackson	Peter Viggers	Mr James Gray
Mr Nick Hurd	Mr Philip Hollobone	Mr Mark Lancaster
Mr David Gauke	Anne Main	Mr Graham Stuart
Miss Ann Widdecombe

NC17

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1)   An order made under Part 1 containing provision relating to Community treaties, Community instruments or Community obligations shall, notwithstanding the European Communities Act 1972, be binding in any legal proceedings in the United Kingdom.

    (2)   In section 1 and this section—

          "Community instruments" and "Community obligations" have the same meaning as in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68);

          "Community treaties" has the same meaning as in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.'.

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Primary restrictions

   

Andrew Miller
Mr Andrew Dismore
Dr Doug Naysmith
Mr David Kidney
Gordon Banks
Mr Andrew Love

NC18

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1)   Provision under Part 1 may not amend, repeal or replace any provision of this Part of this Act.

    (2)   Provision under Part 1 may not amend, repeal or replace any provision of the Human Rights Act 1998.

    (3)   No provision under Part 1 shall be treated as primary legislation for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998.'.

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Determination of parliamentary procedure

   

Mr Greg Knight
Rosemary McKenna
Sir Robert Smith
Mr Eric Illsley
Mr Christopher Chope
Ms Katy Clark

John Hemming

NC23

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1)   An order under this Part shall be subject to the super-affirmative procedure unless within the 30-day period—

(a)	both Houses of Parliament require that it should be subject to either the affirmative or the negative procedure; or

(b)	either House of Parliament decides that it should not be further proceeded with.

    (2)   For the purposes of this section the procedure by which a House of Parliament shall be taken within the 30-day period to have required a different procedure or to have decided that the order should not be further proceeded with shall be determined by that House.

    (3)   In this section the "30-day period" means the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which the draft order was laid before Parliament under section 12.'.

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Renewal by Parliament of Part 1

   

Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Jonathan Djanogly
Mr Mark Harper

NC24

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1)   Before the end of each subsequent period of two years following Royal Assent of the Act Ministers must bring Part 1 before Parliament to be re-approved or rejected by resolution.

    (2)   If, within each two-year period, Ministers do not bring Part 1 before Parliament, pursuant to subsection (1), it will cease to have effect.

    (3)   If Parliament re-approves Part 1 by resolution, pursuant to subsection (1), it will have effect for the subsequent two-year period.

    (4)   If Parliament rejects Part 1 by resolution, pursuant to subsection (1), it will cease to have effect.'.

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Report on regulatory principles

   

Mr Oliver Heald
Mr Jonathan Djanogly
Mr Mark Harper

NC25

To move the following Clause:—

'Before the end of the two-year period beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, the Secretary of State shall prepare and lay before Parliament a report setting out the extent to which the statutory regulators have complied with the regulatory principles as set out in section 20(2).

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Extension of periods

   

Andrew Miller

NC27

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1)   No later than the end of any numbered period of days specified in sections 13 to 16 ("Period A"), the committee of either House of Parliament exercising a function under any of those sections may recommend a single extension of that period by a specified further number of days ("Period B"), not exceeding 30, in relation to a draft order (whether or not revised).

    (2)   Where such a recommendation is made by that committee, Period A shall be treated as extended in relation to that draft order by Period B (unless a single extension of a greater number of days ("Period C") is so recommended by the Committee of the other House exercising such a function, in which case Period A shall be treated as so extended by Period C), and so shall any equal or longer numbered period of days specified in any of those sections.

    (3)   Section 17 applies for the calculation of Period B and Period C as it applies for the calculation of Period A.'.

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Hilary Armstrong

10

Page     1,     line     4,     leave out Clause 1.

   

Mr David Heath
David Howarth

3

Page     1     [Clause     1],     leave out lines 8 and 9 and insert—

'(b)	implementing recommendations of any one or more of the United Kingdom Law Commissions, either without changes or with such changes as are necessary to take into account any development in the law since the time the recommendations were made.'.

   

Mr William Cash
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory
Mr Edward Leigh
Mr Richard Shepherd
Sir Peter Tapsell
Mr Nigel Dodds

Mr Roger Gale

2

Page     1,     line     11     [Clause     1],     leave out from '"legislation"' to end of line 3 on page 2 and insert—

'(a)	means a provision of—

(i)	any public general Act or local Act, or

(ii)	any Order in Council, order, rules, regulations, scheme, warrant, byelaw or other subordinate instrument made under a public general Act or local Act,

(b)	in relation to and notwithstanding the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), includes provision made before the passing of this Act under Community treaties, Community instruments and Community obligations,'.

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Mr David Heath
David Howarth

4

Page     2,     line     5     [Clause     1],     at end insert—

    '(3A)   In this Part, "reforming" shall mean repealing, simplifying or clarifying or making different administrative arrangements for achieving its purposes.'.

   

Hilary Armstrong

11

Page     2,     line     10,     leave out Clause 2.

   

Dr Alan Whitehead

1

Page     2,     line     12     [Clause     2],     at end insert—

    '(1A)   But no order may be made under section 1(1) for the purpose of amending, repealing or modifying any provision of this Act.'.

   

Mr David Heath
David Howarth

5

Page     2,     line     16     [Clause     2],     leave out '(functions of legislating or'.

   

Andrew Miller
Mr Andrew Dismore
Dr Doug Naysmith
Mr David Kidney
Gordon Banks
Mr Andrew Love

6

Page     2,     line     21     [Clause     2],     at end insert, 'and to section (Primary restrictions)'.

   

Mr David Heath
David Howarth

9

Page     2,     line     21     [Clause     2],     at end insert—

    '(2A)   Provision made under subsection (2)(a) may only confer functions relating to the functions of legislation subject to the provisions of section (sub-delegated legislative functions).

   

Hilary Armstrong

12

Page     2,     line     32     [Clause     3],     leave out from 'make' to end of line 35 and insert 'provision under section (Power to remove or reduce burdens)(1), (Power to promote regulatory principles)(1) or (Power to implement Law Commission recommendations)(1)'.

   

Mr David Heath
David Howarth

74

Page     2,     line     36     [Clause     3],     after 'he', insert 'reasonably'.

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Hilary Armstrong

13

Page     3,     line     3     [Clause     3],     at end insert—

    '(2A)   Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to—

(a)	provision under section (Power to remove or reduce burdens)(1), (Power to promote regulatory principles)(1) or (Power to implement Law Commission recommendations)(1) which merely restates an enactment; or

(b)	provision under section (Power to implement Law Commission recommendations)(1) which codifies a rule of law.'.

Prepared 16 May 2006