Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022

107 Parliamentary procedure for judicial schemes: transitory provision

(1) This section applies to scheme regulations for a scheme relating to the judiciary that are made at any time within the period of one month beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

(2) A statutory instrument containing scheme regulations to which this section applies must be laid before Parliament after being made.

(3) Regulations contained in a statutory instrument laid before Parliament under subsection (2) cease to have effect at the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the instrument is made unless, during that period, the instrument is approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(4) In calculating the period of 28 days, no account is to be taken of any whole days that fall within a period during which—

(a) Parliament is dissolved or prorogued, or

(b) either House of Parliament is adjourned for more than four days.

(5) If regulations cease to have effect as a result of subsection (3), that does not—

(a) affect the validity of anything previously done under the regulations, or

(b) prevent the making of new regulations.

(6) If regulations otherwise subject to the negative procedure are combined with scheme regulations to which this section applies, the combined regulations are subject to the procedure set out in this section.

(7) Section 24 of PSPA 2013 (other procedure) does not apply to scheme regulations to which this section applies.

(8) In this section, the following expressions have the same meaning as in PSPA 2013—

• “the judiciary” (see paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to that Act);

• “negative procedure” (see section 38(3) of that Act);

• “scheme” (see section 37 of that Act);

• “scheme regulations” (see section 1(4) of that Act).