Standing Order 72
The Committee recommends that the amendments to Standing Order 72 (Affirmative Instruments) set out below be agreed to. These technical amendments are consequential upon recent changes, already agreed by the House, to the scrutiny arrangements for secondary legislation.
The amendments are as follows (deleted text struck through, inserted text underlined):
72.—No Motion for a resolution of the House to approve an Affirmative Instrument shall be moved until:
(a) except in the case of a draft remedial order or remedial order laid under Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act 1998, or a draft order proposed to be made under Part 1 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006, or a subordinate provisions order made or proposed to be made under the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, a draft order laid under or by virtue of section 7 or section 19 of the Localism Act 2011, or a draft order laid under or by virtue of section 5E of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, there has been laid before the House the report thereon of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments;
(b) in the case of a draft order proposed to be made under Part 1 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006, or a subordinate provisions order made or proposed to be made under the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, a draft order laid under or by virtue of section 7 or section 19 of the Localism Act 2011, or a draft order laid under or by virtue of section 5E of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, there has been laid before the House the report thereon of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee.