The Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body (Abolition) Regulations 2022

Consequential amendments and modifications of the Act

9.—(1) The Act is hereby amended and modified as follows.

(2) The following provisions cease to have effect—

(a) section 2(1) and (6) and Schedule 1 (the Sponsor Body);

(b) section 6 (relationship between Sponsor Body and Parliament);

(c) section 11(b)(i) and (ii) (dissolution of Delivery Authority: consent of Corporate Officers); and

(d) paragraph 1(2)(b) of Schedule 3 (the Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission).

(3) After section 2(1) insert—

“(1A) Regulations 3 and 4 of the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body (Abolition) Regulations 2022 abolish the Sponsor Body (established by subsection (1) of this section, which was repealed by those Regulations) and transfer its functions to the Corporate Officers; and regulation 9(7) of those Regulations provides for references to the Sponsor Body in this Act to be treated as references to the Corporate Officers.”.

(4) In section 10 (abolition of Sponsor Body and Estimates Commission)—

(a) omit subsection (1)(a);

(b) for subsection (2) substitute—

“(2) The Leader of the House of Commons may by regulations made by statutory instrument provide for the transfer from the Corporate Officers to such person as the Leader considers appropriate of—

(a) functions under or in connection with this Act;

(b) property, rights or liabilities relating to or connected with functions under this Act.”;

(c) in subsections (3), (4) and (5) for “subsection (1)(a)” substitute “subsection (2)”;

(d) in subsection (5)(b) and (c), for “the Sponsor Body” substitute “the Corporate Officers”; and

(e) in subsections (8) and (9) for “subsection (1)” substitute “subsection (1) or (2)”.

(5) In section 12(1) (interpretation)—

(a) before the definition of “the Delivery Authority” insert—

““the Corporate Officers” means the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons and the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords, acting jointly;”; and

(b) at the end of the definition of “the Sponsor Body” add “(but by virtue of regulation 9(7) of the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body (Abolition) Regulations 2022 references to the Sponsor Body in this Act are after the commencement of those Regulations to be treated as references to the Corporate Officers).”.

(6) In Schedule 2 (Delivery Authority)—

(a) for paragraph 1(3)(d) substitute—

“(d) the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons or the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords,

(da) employed (under a contract of employment) by the House of Commons Commission, by the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords or by the Corporate Officers as a member of staff of a joint department of the two Houses,”;

(b) in paragraph 1(4) for “and (d)” substitute “and (da)”;

(c) for paragraph 4(1)(d) (and the word “or” immediately before it) substitute—

“(d) the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons or the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords, or

(e) employed (under a contract of employment) by the House of Commons Commission, by the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords or by the Corporate Officers as a member of staff of a joint department of the two Houses.”;

(d) in paragraph 4(2) for “and (d)” substitute “and (e)”;

(e) in paragraph 9(3) for “The Sponsor Body’s accounting officer” substitute “The Corporate Officers”;

(f) in paragraph 9(4) for “the Sponsor Body’s accounting officer” substitute “the Corporate Officers”; and

(g) in paragraph 10(3) for “the Sponsor Body’s accounting officer” substitute “the Corporate Officers”.

(7) In so far as is necessary in consequence of a transfer effected by these Regulations, a reference to the Sponsor Body in a provision of the Act (including a provision specially mentioned elsewhere in these Regulations) is to be taken as being, or including, a reference to the Corporate Officers.