Regulation

Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 25 February 2013.

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Photo of Gordon Banks Gordon Banks Labour, Ochil and South Perthshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many regulations his Department introduced between 1 June 2012 and 31 January 2013; if he will list those regulations; and what estimate he has made of the total cost of their introduction.

Photo of Jo Swinson Jo Swinson The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has introduced 29 regulations between 1 June 2012 and 31 January 2013. The Statements of New Regulations 4 and 5, published on the BIS website in June 2012 and December 2012, give details of all measures that are within the scope of the One-In, One-Out methodology, measures dealt under the Red Tape Challenge and EU measures introduced in January 2013 (see following links). Impact Assessments for all the regulations are also published on the IA library. The costs to business of introduction are set out in the following table—provision of information on the total cost of introduction (which include, for example, staff time in developing and drafting these regulations) can be provided only at disproportionate cost. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/31643/12-p121b-bis-fourth-statement-new-regulation-july-december-2012.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/36595/12-p96b-one-in-one-out-fourth-statement-new-regulation.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/36833/12-p96c-fifth-statement-of-new-regulation.pdf

  Regulation   Date Cost (£ million)
1 Land Registry Fee Order 2012 The order replaces the Land Registry Fee Order 2009. It makes changes to land registry fees, decreasing many of them. October 2012 -5.08
2 The Registrar of Companies (Fees) (Companies, Overseas Companies and Liability Partnerships) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1907) The Registrar of Companies (Fees) (European Economic Interest Grouping and European Public Limited—Liability Company) Regulations 2009 (SI 2012/1908) To align company registration and search fees with costs. October 2012 -2.89
3 The Cosmetic Products (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 Amends the main directive by setting limits on hydrogen peroxide allowed in teeth whitening products. October 2012 0
4 The Student Fees (Basic and Higher Amounts) (Approved Plans) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 To amend existing regulations to raise, in line with inflation, the fee caps that apply to full-time courses that started before 1 September 2012. August and September 2012 0
5 The Insolvency Practitioners and Insolvency Services Account (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2012 To implement changes in insolvency fees as recommended by the main annual fees review. October 2012 0
6 National minimum wage up-rating 2012 To implement annual changes to the national minimum wage rates. October 2012 0
7 The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions—Disqualification General) Order 2012 Replicates the restrictions bankruptcy orders place on individuals to hold certain offices or public positions to Debt Relief Orders and Debt Relief Restriction Orders. October 2012 0
8 Changes to provisions which allow merging of registered trade marks Simplification of the process for businesses registering and renewing trademarks with the Intellectual Property Office. October 2012 0
9 Audit and Financial Reporting under Companies Act 2006 To align the UK audit and certain financial reporting requirements with existing EU law to permit more small companies and UK subsidiary companies to opt out of annual audit and certain financial reporting requirements for dormant subsidiary companies. October 2012 -100
10 Change of accounting framework To give companies more flexibility to switch their accounting framework from International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (UK GAAP). October 2012 -2.08
11 The Accounting Standards (Prescribed Bodies) Regulations 2012 To allow specified companies, over a three-year period, to change their accounting principles from US or Japanese Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to UK GAAP or International Accounting Standards. October 2012 -1.10
12 Repeal of Bunk Beds (Entrapment Hazards) (Safety) Regulations 1987 This repeals regulation protecting children from certain risks associated with bunk beds; redundant now that consumer protection is covered by General Products Safety Regulations. October 2012 0
13 Repeal of Children's Clothing (Hood Cords) Regulations 1976 This repeals legislation that ensured that hood cords in outerwear do not pose a risk to children; now redundant as it is covered by General Products Safety Regulation. October 2012 0
14 Repeal of Imitation Dummies (Safety) Regulations 1993 This repeals legislation that prohibited the supply of specific goods which could be mistaken for dummies and potentially cause injury or death to children. Legislation is no longer regarded as necessary as such products are no longer sold. October 2012 0
15 Repeal of Wheeled Child Conveyances (Safety) Regulations 1997 This repeals legislation that requires prams and pushchairs to meet specific safety standards, as consumer protection is now covered by General Product Safety Regulations. October 2012 0
16 Repeal of Indication of Prices (Beds) Order 1978 This regulation prohibits anyone selling a bed from indicating at what price it can be resold at. It also prohibits, except in circumstances set out in the order, dual price marking of beds. The objectives of this order were superseded by the Competition Act 1998 which prohibited all forms of price fixing. October 2012 0
17 Repeal of Cooking Utensils (Safety) Regulations 1972 This regulation restricted cooking utensils from being coated in dangerous metals which can endanger health. It is now redundant due to newer EU Regulations 1935/2004 in addition to the European Directive 84/500/EC which sets limits for lead and cadmium in food contact materials. October 2012 0
18 Repeal of Child Resistant Packaging and Tactile Danger Warning (Safety) (Revocation) Regulations 1992 This repeals legislation introduced to revoke the Child Resistant Packaging and Tactile Danger Warnings (Safety) Regulations 1992.This is now redundant due to the introduction of Regulation 1272/2008/EC which regulates certain types of re-closable packaging. October 2012 0
19 Amendment of the Hallmarking Act 1973 This simplifies the Hallmarking Act to enable UK Assay Offices to better compete with overseas competitors by allowing them, for the first time, to conduct hallmarking operations in offshore locations. October 2012 0
20 Introducing a Voluntary Code for Age Restrictions Regulations This introduces a voluntary code of practice that has been developed alongside business, local authority and enforcement stakeholders for age restricted products such as alcohol, tobacco and solvents. October 2012 0
21 Repeal of unnecessary product safety regulations The repeal of six unnecessary product safety Statutory Instruments as all are covered by the General Product Safety Regulations and/or other regulations. They are: All-Terrain Vehicles (Safety) Regulations 1989, Gas Catalytic Heaters (Safety) Regulations 1984, Gas Cooking Appliances (Safety) Regulations 1989, Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Regulations 1991, Magnetic Toys (Safety) (Revocation) Regulations 2009 and Stands for Carrycots (Safety) (Revocation) Regulations 1996. October 2012 0
22 Repeal of redundant regulations on the iron and steel industries (EU) These regulations relate to a historical scheme for the payment of benefits to certain steel workers. The scheme was terminated in 1994 with limited transitional provisions. These regulations no longer contain any relevant operative provisions and are now redundant. October 2012 0
23 Revocation of the Export of Goods (Control) (Bosnia-Herzegovina) (ECSC) Order 1993 This order revoked an earlier order which banned the export of goods covered by the ECSC Treaty (coal and steel) to Bosnia-Herzegovina without authorisation. The relevant EU Decision was revoked and replaced by a ban on the export without authorisation of all goods to Bosnia-Herzegovina contained in the Export of Goods (Control) (Croatian and Bosnian Territories) Order 1993, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 820 (1993). Revoking this revocation order will have no legal effect. August 2012 0
24 Revocation of the Export of Goods (Control)(Haiti) Order 1993 This repeals the redundant export control order implementing trade sanctions and arms embargoes imposed by legally-binding United Nations Security Council Resolutions and Decisions of the Council of the EU against Haiti. It sets out the penalties for breaches of the sanctions. Revoking this revocation order will have no legal effect. August 2012 0
25 Revocation of the Export of Goods (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) (Control) Order 2002 This repeals the redundant export control order implementing trade sanctions and arms embargoes imposed by legally-binding United Nations Security Council Resolutions and Decisions of the Council of the EU against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It sets out the penalties for breaches of the sanctions. Revoking this revocation order will have no legal effect. August 2012 0
26 EU Directive 2011/90/EU—Additional Annual Percentage Rates (APR) Assumptions To enable annual interest percentage charge rates being quoted to be much closer to the actual charges likely to be incurred, especially when lending on credit and charge cards. January 2013 +0.29
27 Revocation of Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2008 & 2009 To replace existing legislation, with one regulation that will implement the new EU Directive on Hazardous Substances (2011/65/EU). January 2013 0
28 Recast of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive To lay down the rules for the inclusion of certain hazardous substances (i.e. lead, mercury, cadmium) in newly sold electrical and electronic equipment. January 2013 +35
29 The Further Education Teachers' Continuing Professional Development and Registration (England) (Revocation) Regulations 2012 Removes statutory requirements in the 2007/2116 regulations in respect of the Institute of learning. September 2012 0

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