HL Deb 23 July 2001 vol 626 cc1681-2

3.30 p.m.

The Lord Privy Seal (Lord Williams of Mostyn)

My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.

The Motion is consequential on the House's agreement last Tuesday to the first report from the Procedure Committee. As usual, therefore, it has been placed early in the following business.

The Procedure Committee recommended new terms of reference for the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee and certain changes to Standing Orders necessitated by the Regulatory Reform Act 2001. That is the reason for the amendments to Standing Orders 40 and 72. The committee also recommended that Standing Order 50, on the printing of Bills, should apply to any Explanatory Notes accompanying a Bill. I beg to move.

Moved, That the Standing Orders relating to public business be amended as follows:

Standing Order 40 (Arrangement of the Order Paper)

Leave out Standing Order 40(6) and insert:

"(6) Any Motion relating to a report from the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee on a draft order laid under Section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 or on a draft order laid under the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 shall be entered before a Motion to approve that draft order."

Standing Order 50 (Printing of Bills brought from the Commons)

In Standing Order 50(1), at end insert "and any Explanatory Notes thereto."

Standing Order 72 (Affirmative Instruments)

Leave out Standing Order 72(1) and insert:

"(1) No Motion for a resolution of the House to approve an affirmative instrument shall be moved until:

  1. (a) except in the case of any Order in Council or draft Order in Council made or proposed to be made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974, or a draft order proposed to be made under Section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, or a draft order proposed to be made under Section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 there has been laid before the House the report thereon of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments;
  2. (b) in the case of a draft order proposed to be made under Section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, or a draft order proposed to be made under Section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, there has been laid before the House the report thereon of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee; and
  3. (c) in the case of a hybrid instrument, the proceedings under Private Business Standing Order 216 or 216A have been terminated".—(Lord Williams of Mostyn.)
On Question, Motion agreed to.