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Chapter 15

Delegated legislation and disallowance

Contents

• Executive law-making
• Types and volume of delegated legislation
• Parliamentary control: historical background
• Making and tabling of delegated legislation
• Remaking instruments subject to tabling and disallowance
• Disallowance
• Disallowance motion without notice
• Precedence of disallowance motion
• Tabling as a condition of disallowance
• Amendment of disallowance motion
• Consideration in committee of the whole
• Withdrawal of notice of motion
• Effect of end of a Parliament or session
• Ministerial undertakings
• Remaking of regulations following disallowance
• Disallowance of a repealing instrument
• National uniform legislation
• Regulations and Ordinances Committee
• The Legislative Instruments Act
• Diagram: Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation

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