Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - part 2
I am usually pretty good at understanding these bills but even this one is quite baffling. As far as I can make it out, here it is in a nutshell:
- Any Minister of the Crown can amend existing legislation
- Any Minister of the Crown can implement the recommendations of one of the Law Commissions, either as the recommendation is presented or changed if they want
- Doesn't apply to Northern Ireland
- They can confer powers to other people
- Laws can be repealed
- Their actions can bind the Crown
- The Minister changing the law has to be of the opinion that it is relevant to government policy
- The laws a Minister for the Crown makes will be done so by Statutory Instrument
- It can be anulled by Parliament
- A draft Statutory Instrument has to be approved by the Commons and the Lords first (this isn't the law the Minister wants to make but kind of like a request to be allowed to make a law along these lines)
- Can't increase tax
- Offences under this law can only carry a maximum two year prison sentence or a level 5 fine (£1,000?)
- Can't permit forcible entry to property or confiscation of goods
- Can't force someone to give evidence
- Can't impose on Scottish devolved matters
- Can't confer or remove powers to the Welsh Assembly or reaffirm them
- Consultation must be taken first and the Minister decides who to consult
- Must consult Welsh Assembly if it affects devolved functions in Wales
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