The Registration of Consultant Lobbyists (Amendment) Regulations 2015

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2015/379 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 1477

Consultant Lobbying

The Registration of Consultant Lobbyists (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made

2nd July 2015

Laid before Parliament

9th July 2015

Coming into force

28th July 2015

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 22(2) of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014(1).

Citation and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Consultant Lobbyists (Amendment) Regulations 2015.

(2) These Regulations extend to the United Kingdom.

(3) These Regulations come into force on 28th July 2015.

Amendment of the Registration of Consultant Lobbyists Regulations 2015

2.  In Regulation 5(1)(b) of the Registration of Consultant Lobbyists Regulations 2015(2) for “paragraph (1)” substitute “section 5(1)”.

Signed by the authority of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

John Penrose

Minister for Constitutional Reform

Cabinet Office

2nd July 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 5(1)(b) of the Registration of Consultant Lobbyists Regulations 2015 to correct an incorrect cross-reference.

A regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations as no impact on the public, voluntary or private sectors is foreseen. A regulatory impact assessment has been prepared as to the likely cost and benefits of complying with the Registration of Consultant Lobbyists Regulations 2015. A copy can be obtained from the Constitutional Settlement Division of the Cabinet Office, 1 Horseguards Road, London SW1A 2HQ.

(1)

2014 c. 4. “The Minister” is defined in section 25(1). That section was amended by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1376) and under article 3 of that Order this power is exercisable concurrently by the Secretary of State and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

(2)

S.I. 2015/379.