FIFTH REPORT
15 October 1997
By the Select Committee
appointed to report whether the provisions of any bill inappropriately
delegate legislative power, or whether they subject the exercise
of legislative power to an inappropriate degree of parliamentary
scrutiny; to report on documents laid before Parliament under
section 3(3) of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994
and on draft orders laid under section 1(4) of that Act; and to
perform, in respect of such documents and orders, the functions
performed in respect of other instruments by the Joint Committee
on Statutory Instruments.
MINISTERIAL
AND OTHER SALARIES BILL
1. This bill,
certified by the Speaker as a money bill, provides for the alteration
of salaries payable under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act
1975.
2. There is
only one delegated power in the bill, and this is a Henry VIII
power. That is in the new section 1B to be inserted in the 1975
Act by clause 1(2). This allows further alteration of salaries
by an Order in Council and one of the provisions that may be included
in such an Order is an amendment to the bill (section 1B(3)(b)).
Any order under section 1A is subject to affirmative procedure,
which the Committee considers appropriate (if the draft is concerned
only with the Speaker's salary, the approval of the Commons only
is required).
3. There is
nothing in the bill which the Committee wishes to draw to the
attention of the House.
BRITISH NATIONALITY (ST HELENA) BILL [HL]
4. This Private
Member's bill introduced by the Earl of Iveagh provides for the
acquisition of British citizenship by persons having connections
with St Helena.
5. There is
the simplest commencement power in clause 5(2) and clause 4(2)
attracts a power to make regulations (under section 41 of the
British Nationality Act 1981).
6. There is
nothing in the bill which the Committee wishes to draw to the
attention of the House.
SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN BILL [HL]
7. There are
no delegated legislative powers in this bill.
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