Regulation 11 Review

(1)

The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)

carry out a review of the regulatory provision contained in these Regulations; and

(b)

publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.

(2)

Section 30(4)^f1 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 requires that a report published under this regulation must, in particular—

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision contained in these Regulations;

(b)

assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved;

(c)

assess whether those objectives remain appropriate; and

(d)

if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provision.

(3)

The first report must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which regulation 1 comes into force.

(4)

Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding five years.

(5)

In this regulation, “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32^f2 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (see section 32 of that Act).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 30 was amended by the Enterprise Act 2016 (c. 12), section 19(a) and (b) and by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16), Schedule 8, paragraph 36(a) and (b).
f2: Section 29 has been amended by the European Union (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (c. 28), section 18(3).