PART 3

General

Supplementary

Duties to lay certain reports before Parliament: further provision
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1
In this section “a reporting provision” means section 2(4), 18(2) or 46(2) or paragraph 21(2) of Schedule 2 (duties to lay before Parliament certain reports relating to regulations).
2
Where more than one reporting provision applies in relation to particular regulations under section 1, the reports to which those provisions relate may be contained in a single document.
3
If a reporting provision is not complied with, the appropriate Minister who should have complied with that provision must publish a written statement explaining why that Minister failed to comply with it.
4
Subsection (5) applies where a reporting provision applies and—
a
a statutory instrument containing the regulations concerned, or
b
a draft of such an instrument,
is laid before the House of Commons and House of Lords on different days.
5
Where this subsection applies, the reporting provision in question is to be read as requiring the laying of a copy of the report to which that provision relates—
a
before the House of Commons at the time the instrument or draft mentioned in subsection (4) is laid before the House of Commons, and
b
before the House of Lords at the time that instrument or draft is laid before the House of Lords.