Clause 1 - Purpose
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
11:00 am
Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Amendment No. 29, in clause 1, page 1, line 9, leave out ‘with or’.
New clause 1—Annual report to Parliament about section 1 orders—
‘A Minister of the Crown shall annually lay a report before Parliament detailing, for each government department that made an order under section 1 in that year—
(a)what burdens have been removed,
(b)what burdens have been simplified,
(c)what burdens have been imposed, and
(d)what has been the impact of each order.’.
New clause 4—Definition of ‘burden’—
‘In this Act “burden” includes—
(a)a restriction, requirement or condition (including one requiring the payment of fees or preventing the incurring of expenditure) or any sanction (whether criminal or otherwise) for failure to observe a restriction or to comply with a requirement or condition,
(b)any limit on the statutory powers of any person (including a limit preventing the charging of fees or the incurring of expenditure), and
(c)any matter which in the opinion of a Minister of the Crown causes inconvenience or imposes cost.’.
New clause 5—Small business—
‘(1)An order made under section 1 must, where its application extends to small businesses, make specific provision to reduce the regulatory impact on small businesses where appropriate.
(2)In this section, the meaning of “small business” is the same as in section 249 of the Companies Act 1985.’.