Sentences with phrase «primary legislation»

Instead, the government has made this kind of adjustment very difficult by putting precise commitments and schedules on the face of primary legislation.

The SNP's plans will not feature in primary legislation at all.

And the changes suggested above should not require primary legislation.

A royal charter supported by primary legislation seems the most likely outcome - but this one is far, far too close to call.

That would pave the way for primary legislation in the biggest attempt to shake up parliament's second chamber in a century.

Could a budget resolution be used, or would you need primary legislation for a council tax freeze?

Most worrying of all, it could all be done without putting forward any new primary legislation.

The proposals, which the Government is now consulting on, contain primary legislation on the expenses and funding of civil litigation.

However we do not believe that we need to introduce primary legislation at this time.

Slowly, surely, the very essence of our parliamentary democracy is draining away from primary legislation, where it receives full and frank scrutiny, towards secondary legislation, where it does not.

This means both a vote on the draft deal and then primary legislation implementing the ultimate agreement.

Conservative sources insisted primary legislation would be required for any move towards charging.

The best case for the government would be to avoid primary legislation and involve parliament through a substantive motion — a proposal put forward for debate and a vote.

At the end of the day you can get primary legislation through parliament quite quickly.

The proposed single online court encompassing civil, family and tribunal claims with common procedural rules requires primary legislation, which the government has not brought forward.

Indeed, its 2011 white paper proposed regulatory change supported by primary legislation.

Since 1949, successive governments have made changes to the scope of legal aid without the need for primary legislation.

This could be done by treating retained EU law as primary legislation enacted on exit day.

The 1949, 1958 and 1979 Acts were repealed by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, which remains the current primary legislation governing allocation of constituencies.

These regulations, which mainly come into force on 6 April 2016, amend primary legislation which relates to the provision of care and support for adults and carers in relation to Wales.

Unlike the Church of England, the Church in Wales does not have the power to pass primary legislation in its Governing Body, as the Church of England can in its General Synod.

there is an important difference between the Lords» present powers in respect of primary legislation under the Parliament Acts and the Lords» proposed powers in respect of statutory instruments.

As with primary legislation, the Lords would be able to require the Commons to think again, but it would not wield any veto power.

He had also said that Parliament would legislate to determine the application of EU law after withdrawal whereas the secretary of state had told the court that when withdrawal from the EU took effect, all EU law would be stripped of its effect in domestic law without any requirement of further primary legislation.

All retained direct EU law, the Committee says, should be treated as domestic primary legislation for all purposes, including for the purpose of determining whether it is subject to the exercise of delegated powers contained in legislation other than this Bill.

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Has the Government been planting background statements and political justifications into primary legislation in the expectation of court challenges?

They will override parliament and use this Henry VIII clause where secondary legislation can be used to override primary legislation.

Under his plan ministers would be able to start using sweeping Henry VIII powers (powers to amend primary legislation using secondary legislation) following a simple, binary vote.

Should add to the above that the Tories intended to reduce Welsh seats to 30, as primary legislation powers were devolved after the 2011 referendum, but that was lost when the wider boundary changes package was defeated.

The best primary legislation does no more than establish an overall purpose, along with constraints on the ability of secondary law to violate that purpose, without dictating exactly how it should be achieved.

Those powers should not, however, be used to pick and choose which elements of EU law to keep or replace — that should be done only through primary legislation that is subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny.

Denying the Church of England and the Church in Wales power to opt in on the same basis as other organizations without additional primary legislation.

However, in today's review, Lord Falconer reveals that the law lords can not overrule primary legislation - such as the 2001 anti-terrorism act - and as such the government can pass anything they believe is in the interests of national security, regardless of whether it is in accordance with the ECHR.

If the Government wants to change the law in areas which currently fall under the authority of EU as, just to give one example, it has said it intends to do on immigration, it should do so via primary legislation which is subject to full Parliamentary scrutiny.

It is of course the case that the PACE 1984 Codes are not primary legislation.

Canon law does therefore rely on Royal Assent and License but, where this is given (which it almost always is), it continues to form primary legislation made by the CoE.

«While the government found the analysis of Lord Strathclyde compelling and we are determined that the principle of the supremacy of the elected house should be upheld, we have no plans for now to introduce primary legislation,» said David Lidington, the minister who manages government business in parliament.

This would ensure that the House of Lords was not only unable to block statutory instruments, but that it was also unable to delay the enactment of primary legislation conferring broad executive powers to make such instruments.

To bring all these decisions for many benefits over many years together, we will introduce into Parliament primary legislation — the Welfare Uprating Bill.

If things were in any way normal, we would expect the creation of a public body to involve primary legislation: an actual bill, debated in parliament, talked about on TV stations and radio programmes - the standard democratic routine.

This occurs when primary legislation (an act of Parliament) specifies that particular changes to the law may be made in this way in future.

Most worryingly the Bill contains a number of so - called «Henry VIII clauses» where power is given to ministers to use secondary legislation to amend existing primary legislation.2 Alan McLintock commented: «The Bill gives the Secretary of State and the Treasury unprecedented power to create tax legislation with very limited opportunity for scrutiny.