Select Committee on Regulatory Reform Eighth Report

3  Other representations made on the proposal

The House of Lords Select Committee on Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform

24. The Committee issued its report on the proposal on 31 January 2007.[9] The Committee considered that all elements of the proposed Order met the requirements of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 and that it would be an appropriate use of the powers that Act confers.

Other representations

25. No other representations were received by the Department during the scrutiny period. The Department notes that it received copies of the letters we received from the Deer Initiative and the British Deer Society regarding the future length of the shorter close seasons for female deer of some species that the proposal would have created.

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9   Referred to by the Department in paragraph 4 of the Explanatory Statement as the Fourth Report of Session 2006-07. In fact it is the Fifth Report of that Session. Back

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Prepared 23 July 2007