Joint Committee on Statutory
Instruments
Current membership
House of Lords
Lord Campbell of Alloway (Conservative)
Lord Clinton-Davis (Labour)
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Labour)
Lord Kimball (Conservative)
Countess of Mar (Crossbench)
Earl of Mar and Kellie (Liberal Democrat)
Lord Walpole (Crossbench)
House of Commons
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 and House
of Lords Standing Order No. 74, available on the Internet via
www.parliament.uk/jcsi.
Remit
The Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI)
is appointed to consider statutory instruments made in exercise
of powers granted by Act of Parliament. Instruments not laid before
Parliament are included within the Committee's remit; but local
instruments and instruments made by devolved administrations are
not considered by JCSI unless they are required to be laid before
Parliament.
The role of the JCSI, whose membership is drawn from
both Houses of Parliament, is to assess the technical qualities
of each instrument that falls within its remit and to decide whether
to draw the special attention of each 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. 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 both Houses. All publications of
the Committee are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/jcsi.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are John Whatley
(Commons Clerk), Kath Kavanagh (Lords Clerk) and
Jennifer Steele (Committee Assistant). Advisory Counsel:
Peter Davis, Peter Brooksbank and Christine Cogger (Commons);
Allan Roberts and Peter Milledge (Lords).
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk
of the Joint 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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