Lords committee monitoring Coronavirus Secondary Legislation

The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee is considering statutory instruments (subject to parliamentary procedure) that are being laid to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

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Provider:

UK Parliament

URL:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2020/march/lords-committee-monitoring-coronavirus-secondary-legislation/

Retrieved on:

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

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Tags:

United Kingdom administrative law, Delegated legislation, Statutory law, Statutory instrument, Primary and secondary legislation, Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, Law, Public law

Summary

Key Points:

The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee is considering statutory instruments (subject to parliamentary procedure) that are being laid to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The committee has created a new page to track all SIs arising from the Coronavirus Act and their subsequent reports on them .
SIs are secondary pieces of legislation that ministers or other bodies are enabled to create by a law.
These pieces of secondary legislation are used to fill in the details of Acts (pieces of primary legislation), providing practical measures to enable the law to operate.