Duties to lay certain reports before Parliament: further provision

Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:45 am on 6 March 2018.

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(1) In this section “a reporting provision” means section 2(4), (Report in respect of offences in regulations)(2) or 40(2) or paragraph 20A(2) of Schedule 2 (duties to lay before Parliament certain reports relating to regulations).

(2) Where more than one reporting provision applies in relation to particular regulations under section 1, the reports to which those provisions relate may be contained in a single document.

(3) If a reporting provision is not complied with, the appropriate Minister who should have complied with that provision must publish a written statement explaining why that Minister failed to comply with it.

(4) Subsection (5) applies where a reporting provision applies and—

(a) a statutory instrument containing the regulations concerned, or

(b) a draft of such an instrument,

is laid before the House of Commons and House of Lords on different days.

(5) Where this subsection applies, the reporting provision in question is to be read as requiring the laying of a copy of the report to which that provision relates—

(a) before the House of Commons at the time the instrument or draft mentioned in subsection (4) is laid before the House of Commons, and

(b) before the House of Lords at the time that instrument or draft is laid before the House of Lords.—

This new clause enables certain reports relating to regulations to be combined in one document, requires a written statement to be made by the Minister if certain reporting requirements are not complied with, and clarifies how those requirements apply.

Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.

New Clause 1