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)
Mr Nigel Dodds MP (Democratic Unionist, Belfast
North)
Michael Jabez Foster MP (Labour, Hastings and
Rye)
Mr David Kidney MP (Labour, Stafford)
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;
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| ii. | that its parent legislation says that it cannot be challenged in the courts;
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| iii. | that it appears to have retrospective effect without the express authority of the parent legislation;
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| iv. | that there appears to have been unjustifiable delay in publishing it or laying it before Parliament;
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| 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;
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| 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;
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| vii. | that its form or meaning needs to be explained;
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| viii. | that its drafting appears to be defective;
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| ix. | or on any other ground which does not go to its merits or the policy behind it.
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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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