A Statutory Instrument subject to parliamentary procedure can’t be published until it has been laid before Parliament. If there are to be regulations rather than just guidance, then the minister can have signed them to bring them into force but .....(1/4)
..the rest of us won’t see them until they are laid before Parliament (ie delivered to the relevant office in each House this morning). I assume they will be like those for Leicester, Luton, Blackburn so made under powers in the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (2/4)
They will be subject to the made affirmative scrutiny procedure and as such they will be a type of SI that can be laid before Parliament even tho both Houses are currently adjourned.(3/4)
But the 28 day scrutiny clock for retrospective approval of the regs will not start ticking until the first week in September when Parliament returns, by which time the new restrictions will probably have been lifted. (4/4)
