{"id":356,"date":"2006-11-10T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T22:19:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-11-10T22:19:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T22:19:04","slug":"legislative-and-regulatory-reform-act-finally-breaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act finally breaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opsi.gov.uk\/acts\/acts2006\/ukpga_20060051_en.pdf\">Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006<\/a> which received Royal Assent this week will \u2013 from 8 January 2007 &#8211; give ministers new powers to strip away red tape. <\/p>\n<p>The Act is seen as the way forward to fight bureaucracy. Although there are provisions that will ensure Parliament can block controversial decisions it has been dubbed <strong>&#8220;The Destruction of Parliament Act&#8221;,<\/strong> because the provisions allow ministers to avoid the full process needed for a full Act but to achieve the same result. <\/p>\n<p>The effect of the Act will be to create a new form of Delegated Legislation which empowers a minister to make an order to improve business, including creation or removal of a criminal sanction from almost any other legislative form from byelaws to Acts of Parliament themselves. <\/p>\n<p>Orders will be created by Statutory Instrument made by: <br \/>(i) the negative resolution procedure; <br \/>(ii) the affirmative resolution procedure; or <br \/>(iii) the <strong><u><font color=#ff0066>super-affirmative resolution procedure<\/font><\/u><\/strong> (this new procedure allows material changes to the order if made within 60 days) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 which received Royal Assent this week will \u2013 from 8 January 2007 &#8211; give ministers new powers to strip away red tape. The Act is seen as the way forward to fight bureaucracy. Although there are provisions that will ensure Parliament can block controversial decisions it has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}