Clause 57 - Regulations about ballots
Local Government Bill
3:00 pm
Mr Christopher Leslie (Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office; Shipley, Labour)
I take it from that contribution that, in general, the hon. Gentleman accepts that the Secretary of State should be able to make regulations providing for the timing of a ballot, who should vote, the persons who are to conduct it and so on. Subsection (2) says, as is normal practice in legislation, that specific issues can be covered in the regulations. The list is not exhaustive, but it gives a clear indication in the Bill of the core factors that we expect to be part of the regulations, so as to avoid challenge on those aspects.
Subsection (2) refers to
''The provision which may be made by regulations under this section''.
As I have said, subsection (3) conforms to standard drafting practice. It is not a new phenomenon.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 57 ordered to stand part of the Bill.