The Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
The Committee is appointed by the
House of Lords each session and has the following terms of reference:
(i) 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;
(ii) To report on documents and draft
orders laid before Parliament under or by virtue of:
(a) sections 14 and 18 of the
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006,
(b) section 7(2) or section 15
of the Localism Act 2011, or
(c) section 5E(2) of the Fire
and Rescue Services Act 2004;
and to perform, in respect of such
draft orders, and in respect of subordinate provisions orders
made or proposed to be made under the Regulatory Reform Act 2001,
the functions performed in respect of other instruments and draft
instruments by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments; and
(iii) To report on documents and draft
orders laid before Parliament under or by virtue of:
(a) section 85 of the Northern
Ireland Act 1998,
(b) section 17 of the Local Government
Act 1999,
(c) section 9 of the Local Government
Act 2000,
(d) section 98 of the Local Government
Act 2003, or
(e) section 102 of the Local
Transport Act 2008.
Membership
The members of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory
Reform Committee are:
Baroness Andrews
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
Baroness Drake
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton
Baroness Fookes
Countess of Mar
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames
Baroness O'Loan
Viscount Ullswater
Baroness Thomas of Winchester (Chairman)
Registered Interests
Committee Members' registered interests may be examined
in the online Register of Lords' Interests at www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldreg.htm.
The Register may also be inspected in the Parliamentary Archives.
Interests related to this Report are in the Appendix.
Publications
The Committee's reports are published by the Stationery
Office by Order of the House in hard copy and on the internet
at www.parliament.uk/hldprrcpublications.
General Information
General information about the House of Lords and
its Committees, including guidance to witnesses, details of current
inquiries and forthcoming meetings is on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/.
Contacts for the Delegated Powers and Regulatory
Reform Committee
Any query about the Committee or its work should
be directed to the Clerk of Delegated Legislation, Legislation
Office, House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW. The telephone number
is 020 7219 3103 and the fax number is 020 7219 2571. The Committee's
email address is dprr@parliament.uk.
Historical Note
In February 1992, the Select Committee on the Committee
work of the House, under the chairmanship of Earl Jellicoe, noted
that "in recent years there has been considerable disquiet
over the problem of wide and sometimes ill-defined order-making
powers which give Ministers unlimited discretion" (Session
1991-92, HL Paper 35-I, paragraph 133). The Committee recommended
the establishment of a delegated powers scrutiny committee which
would, it suggested, "be well suited to the revising function
of the House". As a result, the Select Committee on the Scrutiny
of Delegated Powers was appointed experimentally in the following
session. It was established as a sessional committee from the
beginning of Session 1994-95. The Committee also has responsibility
for scrutinising legislative reform orders under the Legislative
and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 and other acts specified in the
Committee's terms of reference
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