Select Committee on Statutory Instruments
Current membership
David Maclean MP (Conservative,
Penrith and The Border) (Chairman)
Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP (Labour,
City of Durham)
Mr Peter Bone MP (Conservative,
Wellingborough)
Michael Jabez Foster MP (Labour,
Hastings and Rye)
Mr David Kidney MP (Labour, Stafford)
David Simpson MP (Democratic Unionist,
Upper Bann)
Powers
The full constitution and powers of the Committee
are set out in House of Commons Standing Order No. 151, available
on the Internet via www.parliament.uk/scsi.
Remit
The Select Committee on Statutory Instruments
(SCSI) is appointed to consider statutory instruments made in
exercise of powers granted by Act of Parliament. It carries out
the same duties as the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments
in respect of those instruments laid before and subject to proceedings
in the House of Commons only.
The role of the SCSI, whose membership
is drawn from the House of Commons, is to assess the technical
qualities of each instrument that falls within its remit and to
decide whether to draw the special attention of the House to any
instrument on one or more of the following grounds:
i. that it imposes, or sets the
amount of, a charge on public revenue or that it requires payment
for a licence, consent or service to be made to the Exchequer,
a government department or a public or local authority, or sets
the amount of the payment;
ii. that its parent legislation
says that it cannot be challenged in the courts;
iii. that it appears to have retrospective
effect without the express authority of the parent legislation;
iv. that there appears to have
been unjustifiable delay in publishing it or laying it before
Parliament;
v. that there appears to have been
unjustifiable delay in sending a notification under the proviso
to section 4(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946, where the
instrument has come into force before it has been laid;
vi. that there appears to be doubt
about whether there is power to make it or that it appears to
make an unusual or unexpected use of the power to make;
vii. that its form or meaning needs
to be explained;
viii. that its drafting appears
to be defective;
ix. or on any other ground which
does not go to its merits or the policy behind it.
The Committee usually meets weekly
when Parliament is sitting.
Publications
The reports of the Committee are published by The
Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the
Committee are available on the Internet from www.parliament.uk/scsi.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee
are John Whatley (Commons Clerk) and Jennifer Steele (Committee
Secretary). Advisory Counsel: Peter Davis, Peter Brooksbank
and Christine Cogger.
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed
to the Clerk of the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments,
Delegated Legislation Office, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The
telephone number for general inquiries is: 020 7219 2830; the
Committee's email address is: jcsi@parliament.uk.
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