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A
consolidation bill is a
bill introduced into the
Parliament of the United Kingdom with the intention of consolidating several
Acts of Parliament and/or
Statutory Instruments into a single Act. Such bills simplify the
statute book without significantly changing the state of the law, and are subject to an expedited
Parliamentary procedure.
Procedure
Consolidation bills are introduced in the
House of Lords which, by convention, has
primacy in these matters. The Lords has the only substantive discussion on the bill, at its
second reading, before the bill is sent to a
joint committee of both Houses which may propose amendments to it. Subject to this, the Lords' third reading and all readings in the
House of Commons are usually formalities and pass without debate. and it's this prior consideration that gives rise to the expedited process afforded to these bills. Every consolidation bill proposed by the Law Commission has been passed by Parliament.
Once a consolidation bill receives
royal assent it's known as a consolidation Act. An example of a consolidation Act is the
Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, which consolidated into a single Act parts of
sentencing legislation previously spread across twelve separate Acts.
Categories of consolidation bills
There are five categories of bill that qualify as consolidation bills:
- Bills which only re-enact existing law.
- Bills which consolidate previous laws with amendments, proposed in response to recommendations from the Law Commission.
- Bills to repeal existing legislation, again prepared by the Law Commission.
- Bills to repeal various obsolete or unnecessary parts of existing legislation.
- Bills which make corrections and minor improvements to existing legislation, prepared under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949.
The first three categories now account for almost all consolidation bills.
Recent consolidation Acts
Examples of consolidation Acts include the following:
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
Shipping and Trading Interests (Protection) Act 1995
Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995
Police Act 1996
Employment Tribunals Act 1996
Employment Rights Act 1996
Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996
Education Act 1996
School Inspections Act 1996
Architects Act 1997
Lieutenancies Act 1997
Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997
Justices of the Peace Act 1997
Petroleum Act 1998
Audit Commission Act 1998
Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000
European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002
Parliamentary Costs Act 2006
Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006
National Health Service Act 2006
National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006Further Information
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