Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:30 pm on 27 March 2001.
Andrew Lansley
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Policy Renewal
I am sorry to cause delay over Clause 4, because there was a considerable amount of debate on it in Another place, largely relating to the proper scrutiny of the subordinate provisions order. It is proper to recognise that the Government have made changes that will make it easier for the subordinate provisions order to be passed in the form determined by the originating order—whether affirmative or negative. Those changes are helpful.
I have one small question. Subsection (7) states that subsection (2), which refers to orders being laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House,
``does not apply to a subordinate provisions order, if—
(a) it is not made by a Minister of the Crown''.
Does that mean the National Assembly for Wales acting alone, without a Minister of the Crown, or does it refer to somebody else, or other circumstances of which I am unaware?
Graham Stringer
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
It means the Welsh Assembly.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 4 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
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A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
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