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Constitution Committee - Fifteenth Report
Fast-track Legislation: Constitutional Implications and Safeguards

Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 17 June 2009.


CONTENTS


Terms of Reference

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Definitions of fast-track legislation

Chapter 3: primary legislation which is fast-tracked

Chapter 4: Fast-tracked legislation relating to Northern Ireland

Chapter 5: delegated legislation which is fast-tracked

Chapter 6: potential improvements to the fast-track scrutiny process

Appendix 1: Select Committee on the Constitution

Appendix 2: List of Witnesses

Appendix 3: Correspondence with the Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales and the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland

Appendix 4: Letter from Rt Hon Shaun Woodward MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 6 March 2009

Appendix 5: List of Bills subject to a Fast-Track passage since 1974

Appendix 6: Fast-track Legislation—the experience of other legislative bodies

NOTE:

The Report of the Committee is published in Volume I (HL Paper 116-I)
The Evidence of the Committee is published in Volume II (HL Paper 116-II)

References in the text of the Report are as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence




MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 116-II)






 
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