Clause 26 - Power to make orders, rules and schemes
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
Public Bill Committees, 9 March 2006, 1:45 pm
Oliver Heald (Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs & Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Assisted By Shadow Solicitor General), Constitutional Affairs; North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister. Now that he has explained his view of the meaning of regulations, rules and orders, we are on familiar territory.
However, what about the schemes? Anyone who hears the expression “schemes”—[Interruption.]—is automatically a little worried and possibly wants to frustrate them, as the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome said. I am aware of only one reference under the law to schemes. The Fisheries Act 1981 brought in a scheme that was not popular universally. However, it was described under that Act as a scheme. Is that the only one of which he is aware, or is it a term that is used more widely than in the Fisheries Act?