Regulation 15 Review

(1)

In addition to the review carried out under section 67 (review) of the Regulatory Sanctions and Enforcement Act 2008, the Secretary of State must from time to time carry out a review of the regulatory provisions of these Regulations and publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.

(2)

The first report must be published before the expiry of the period of five years beginning on the date on which these Regulations come into force.

(3)

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

(4)

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

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provisions of 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.

(5)

In this regulation “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in 32(4) of the 2015 Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2015 c. 26.