Regulatory Reform - First Special Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 31 January 2006.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Report
Summary
1 Introduction
Part 1 of the Bill: deregulation or general
power to reform legislation?
This Special Report
2 Background
Delegated legislation and the Regulatory
Reform Orders
Benefits and of RROs
Review of the Working of the 2001 RRA
Consultation document and responses
3 Part 1 of the Bill
Constitutional implications - streamlining
of procedures
How the Bill increases Ministerial powers
Existing forms of streamlining
Purpose of streamlining measures in Part
1
Streamlining powers in Part 1
Streamlining mechanisms in Part 1
Summary of streamlining
Assessment of streamlining
Controls in (and not in) Part 1
Consideration of controls
Controls on subject matter
Expected Ministerial undertaking
2001 Act inhibitions
A potential precedent - limits on powers
of Scottish Parliament
Possibility of adding reservations on subject
matter
Preliminary procedural hurdles
Explanatory document
Information to be included
Possibility of legal challenge on the basis
of tests in Part 1
Possibility of adding controversy and/or
appropriateness test
Parliamentary controls - general
Choice of procedures
Parliamentary controls - substance
Limits on control powers
Possibility of veto
Possibility of amendment
Parliamentary controls - procedure
Procedural details
Rationale for range of time limits
Partial reduction in scrutiny periods
Risks involved in fast tracking
Three possible solutions
First option - maintenance of full range
of procedures and time limits (lengthened in one case), with scope
for extension
Second option - removing negative procedure
and merging time limits, with scope for extension
Third option - removing negative procedure,
introducing a default super-affirmative provision and merging
time limits with scope for extension
Overall conclusions on text of Part 1
4 Matters for the House
Implications for Standing Orders
Revisions to Standing Order No.141
Scrutiny criteria
Inquiries and the Better Regulation Agenda
Second stage of each order - floor of the
House
Revisions to Standing Order No. 18
Resources
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Formal minutes
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendices to the Minutes
of Evidence
List of witnesses
Reports from the Regulatory
Reform Committee in the last Session of Parliament
ORAL EVIDENCE
13th December 2005
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