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[NOTE: The words marked in bold type were inserted by the Lords to avoid |
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Make provision in relation to the Law Commission. |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Reports on implementation of Law Commission proposals |
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After section 3 of the Law Commissions Act 1965 (c. 22) insert— |
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“3A | Reports on implementation of Law Commission proposals |
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(1) | As soon as practicable after the end of each reporting year, the Lord |
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Chancellor must prepare a report on— |
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(a) | the Law Commission proposals implemented (in whole or in |
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(b) | the Law Commission proposals that have not been |
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implemented (in whole or in part) as at the end of the year, |
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(i) | plans for dealing with any of those proposals; |
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(ii) | any decision not to implement any of those proposals (in |
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whole or in part) taken during the year and the reasons |
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(2) | The Lord Chancellor must lay the report before Parliament. |
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(3) | The first reporting year is the year starting with the day on which |
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section 1 of the Law Commission Act 2009 comes into force; and the |
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second reporting year is the year after that and so on. |
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(4) | If a decision not to implement a Law Commission proposal (in whole |
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or in part) is taken in a reporting year, subsection (1)(b) does not require |
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a report for a later reporting year to deal with the proposal so far as it |
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is covered by that decision. |
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(5) | If a decision not to implement a Law Commission proposal (in whole |
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or in part) has been taken before the first reporting year, subsection |
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(1)(b) does not require any report to deal with the proposal so far as it |
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is covered by that decision. |
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(6) | “Law Commission proposal” means— |
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(a) | a proposal formulated by the Law Commission as mentioned in |
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(b) | a proposal for consolidation or statute law revision for which a |
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draft Bill has been prepared by the Law Commission as |
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mentioned in section 3(1)(d).” |
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2 | Protocol about the Law Commission’s work |
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Before section 4 of the Law Commissions Act 1965 (c. 22) insert— |
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“3B | Protocol about the Law Commission’s work |
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(1) | The Lord Chancellor and the Law Commission may agree for the |
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purposes of this section a statement (a “protocol”) about the Law |
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(2) | The protocol may include (among other things) provision about— |
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(a) | principles and methods to be applied in deciding the work to be |
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carried out by the Law Commission and in the carrying out of |
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(b) | the assistance and information that Ministers of the Crown and |
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the Law Commission are to give each other; |
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(c) | the way in which Ministers of the Crown are to deal with the |
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Law Commission’s proposals for reform, consolidation or |
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(3) | The Lord Chancellor and the Law Commission must from time to time |
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review the protocol and may agree to revise it. |
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(4) | The Lord Chancellor must lay the protocol (and any revision of it) |
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(5) | Ministers of the Crown and the Law Commission must have regard to |
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3 | Commencement and short title |
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(1) | This Act comes into force at the end of the period of 2 months beginning with |
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the day on which it is passed. |
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(2) | This Act may be cited as the Law Commission Act 2009. |
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(3) | Nothing in this Act shall impose any charge on the people or on public |
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funds, or vary the amount or incidence of or otherwise alter any such charge |
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in any manner, or affect the assessment, levying, administration or |
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application of any money raised by any such charge. |
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