Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments
Current membership
House of Lords
Lord Clinton-Davis (Labour)
Lord Kennedy (Labour)
Lord Lyell (Conservative)
Earl of Mar and Kellie (Liberal Democrat)
Lord Selkirk (Conservative)
Baroness Stern (Crossbench)
Lord Walpole (Crossbench)
House of Commons
Mr George Mudie MP (Labour, Leeds
East) (Chairman)
Mr Robert Buckland MP (Conservative,
South Swindon)
Michael Ellis MP (Conservative, Northampton
North)
John Hemming MP (Liberal Democrat,
Birmingham, Yardley)
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger MP (Conservative,
Bridgwater and West Somerset)
Toby Perkins MP (Labour, Chesterfield)
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 Hwww.parliament.uk/jcsiH.
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 Hwww.parliament.uk/Hjcsi.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are
Charlotte Littleboy (Commons Clerk), Jane White (Lords
Clerk) and Liz Booth (Committee Assistant). Advisory
Counsel: Peter Davis, Peter Brooksbank, Philip Davies and
Daniel Greenberg (Commons); Nicholas Beach and Peter Milledge
(Lords).
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed
to the Clerk of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments,
7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general
inquiries is: 020 7219 2026; the Committee's email address is:
jcsi@parliament.uk.
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