§ Baroness LLEWELYN-DAVIES of HASTOEMy Lords, on behalf of my noble friend the Leader of the House, I beg to move the Motion standing in his name on the Order Paper.
§ Moved, That the Standing Orders relating to Public Business be amended as follows:
§ Standing Order No. 38
§ Leave out paragraph (4) and insert—
§ " (4) On all sitting days except Wednesdays, notices and orders relating to Public Bills, Measures and Affirmative Instruments shall have precedence over other notices and orders save the foregoing: and on such days the precedence of notices and orders relating to Public Bills, Measures and Affirmative Instruments may be varied if the convenience of the House so requires."
§ Standing Order No. 39
§
In paragraph (5), leave out "but may be taken at any convenient time during a sitting." and insert—
or at the end of business before the adjournment.
§ Standing Order No. 67A
§ Insert the following new Standing Order—
§ Affirmative Instruments
§ (1) No motion for a resolution of the House to approve an affirmative instrument shall be moved until:—
- (a) there has been laid before the House the report thereon of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments; and
- (b) in the case of a hybrid instrument, the proceedings under Private Business Standing Order 216 or 216A have been terminated.
§ (2) In this Standing Order "affirmative instrument" means an Order in Council, departmental order, rules, regulations, scheme or other similar instrument presented to or laid in draft before the House where an affirmative resolution is required before it, or any part of it, 1293 becomes effective, or is made, or is a condition of its continuance in operation; but the expression does not include a Measure laid before the House under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 nor regulations made under the Emergency Powers Act 1920.
§ (3) An Order in Council that may not be made except in response to an address by the House to Her Majesty is an affirmative instrument within the meaning of this Standing Order, and a motion for an address to Her Majesty praying that an order be made is a motion to approve the order.
§ (4) An order, rules, regulations, scheme or instrument laid in draft before the House for the purpose of being affirmed by resolution of the House is an affirmative instrument within the meaning of this Standing Order notwithstanding that, if the draft is not approved, that instrument is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House.—(Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.