The Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee reports to the House of Lords on the delegations in public bills. To assist it in its work, the Government provide the Committee with a delegated powers memorandum which is intended to explain and justify each delegation in a bill. Recently the Committee has commented adversely on a number of memoranda and this inquiry aims to find a remedy to the inconsistency in standards
In the report the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee offers a number of recommendations and conclusions on the procedures governing the scrutiny of certain legislative powers delegated by Parliament to ministers. The main procedures are the negative procedure and the affirmative procedure, but a number of variations to these have been introduced and a complex patchwork of procedures has grown up. The Committee recommends an enhanced scrutiny role given the increasing practice of delegating significant legislative powers to ministers. The report also calls for the Government to advise on how the House of Lords will scrutinise draft orders under a number of Acts.
14th report of Session 2005-06 : Proposal for the draft Regulatory Reform (Public Service Vehicles) Order 2005; draft Regulatory Reform (Forestry) Order 2006
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