PART 4Miscellaneous

Amendments to secondary legislation in relation to permission in principle

8.  The Schedule, which contains amendments to secondary legislation, has effect.

Review

9.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)carry out a review of the regulatory provisions contained in this Order; and

(b)publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.

(2) The first report must be published by 15th April 2022.

(3) Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years.

(4) Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015(1) requires that a report published under this article must, in particular—

(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision referred to in paragraph (1)(a),

(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved,

(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate, and

(d)if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provision.

(5) In this article, “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as given by sections 28 to 32 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (see section 32 of that Act).