Legislative competence orders in council: second report of session 2006-07 report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

House of Commons papers 175 2006-07

Corporate Author:

Great Britain Parliament House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee

Author:

Hywel Francis (chairman)

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

Although the National Assembly of Wales has limited law-making powers, they can be enhanced, given Parliamentary consent, by a new procedure known as Legislative Competence Order in Council. This sits alongside a procedure where Acts of Parliament may prescribe matters on which the National Assembly may legislate within areas (known as "Fields") for which it has responsibility. In this report the Committee examine the new procedure. Although it welcomes the chance to be involved in the pre-legislative scrutiny of draft Orders, it is worried about the potential work load and think there could be merit in ad hoc committees set up to examine each proposed Legislative Competence Order. There is also a concern that Matters added by provisions in Bills of a general nature will not have the same degree of scrutiny as legislative Competence Orders.

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