The Parliamentary Corporate Bodies (Crown Immunities etc.) (Amendment) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 1457

PARLIAMENT

The Parliamentary Corporate Bodies (Crown Immunities etc.) (Amendment) Order 2006

Made

7th June 2006

Laid before Parliament

19th June 2006

Coming into force

10th July 2006

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 7th day of June 2006

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in pursuance of sections 1(6) and 2(6) of the Parliamentary Corporate Bodies Act 1992(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is ordered, as follows:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Corporate Bodies (Crown Immunities etc.) (Amendment) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 10th July 2006.

Amendment of the Parliamentary Corporate Bodies (Crown Immunities etc.) Order 1992

2.  In article 2 of the Parliamentary Corporate Bodies (Crown Immunities etc.) Order 1992(2)—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) For the purposes of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (in this article referred to as “the Planning Act”) any development carried out by or on behalf of a Corporate Officer or the Corporate Officers shall be regarded as development carried out by or on behalf of the Crown (and, accordingly, the use of the land for the purposes of the House of Lords, the House of Commons or both those Houses shall be regarded as use by or on behalf of the Crown).”;

(b) in paragraph (3)(b) for “(1)(b)” substitute “(1)”; and

(c) in paragraph (4) for “section 83(7)(b)” substitute “section 82C(6)(b)”(3).

A.K.Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Parliamentary Corporate Bodies (Crown Immunities etc.) Order 1992 (S.I. 19921732) put the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords and the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons in a corresponding position to that of the Crown for the purposes of the application to them of certain enactments, including the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (“the Planning Acts”).

Part 7 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 applied the Planning Acts to the Crown. The Planning (Application to the Houses of Parliament) Order 2006 specifies as Crown interests the interests of the two Speakers and one or both of the Corporate Officers in particular parts of the Palace of Westminster and its precincts and provides that the appropriate authority in relation to that land is one or both of the Corporate Officers, as the case may be. The amendments made by this Order are consequential to the Planning (Application to the Houses of Parliament) Order 2006.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business, charities, voluntary bodies or the public sector.

(1)

1992 c. 27.

(2)

S.I. 1992/1732.

(3)

Section 83 was repealed, and section 82C was inserted, by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5), section 79(4), paragraph 7 of Schedule 3, and Schedule 9.