Employment Rights Bill - Report (3rd Day) – in the House of Lords at 6:23 pm on 21 July 2025.
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch:
Moved by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
120: Clause 46, page 67, line 27, at end insert—“(3A) Regulations under this section that by virtue of subsection (2)(b) make provision about the consequences of a failure to comply with a duty imposed by the regulations in relation to a provision of guidance or a code of practice must provide for the guidance or code to be laid before the appropriate legislature and subject to the procedure specified.”Member's explanatory statementThis Amendment provides that, where regulations under clause 46 provide for the issuing of guidance or a code of practice by the Secretary of State, and make provision about the consequences of a failure to comply with a duty imposed in relation to the guidance or code, the regulations must provide for the guidance or code to be laid before Parliament and to be subject to the procedure specified in the regulations. The amendment also imposes an equivalent duty in relation to regulations made by the Welsh Ministers or Scottish Ministers.
121: Clause 46, page 67, line 28, after “section” insert “—“the appropriate legislature” means—(a) in the case of regulations of the Secretary of State, Parliament;(b) in the case of regulations of the Welsh Ministers, Senedd Cymru;(c) in the case of regulations of the Scottish Ministers, the Scottish Parliament;”Member's explanatory statementThis amendment is consequential on my other amendment of this clause.
Amendments 120 and 121 agreed.
Clause 49: Regulations under section 43 or 45: supplementary
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