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A draft Order laid before both Houses of Parliament under section 4(2) of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001.

REGULATORY REFORM

SOCIAL SECURITY

Made 2002

Coming into force—

for the purposes of exercising powers to make subordinate legislation 1st September 2002

for all other purposes except for the purposes of Article 2 28th October 2002

for the purposes of Article 2 1st April 2003

Whereas—

  1. (a)

    the Secretary of State is of the opinion that this Order does not remove any necessary protection or prevent any person from continuing to exercise any right or freedom which he might reasonably expect to continue to exercise;

  2. (b)

    the Secretary of State has consulted such organisations as appear to be representative of interests substantially affected by his proposals, the National Assembly for Wales and such other persons as he considers appropriate;

  3. (c)

    following that consultation, the Secretary of State considered it appropriate to proceed with the making of this Order;

  4. (d)

    a document containing the Secretary of State’s proposals was laid before Parliament as required by section 6 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001f1 and the period for Parliamentary consideration under section 8 of that Act expired;

  5. (e)

    the Secretary of State has had regard to representations made during this period, in particular to the Fifteenth Report of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committeef2 and the Eighth Report of the Deregulation and Regulatory Reform Committeef3;

  6. (f)

    a draft of this Order was laid before Parliament with a statement giving details of such representations and the Report, and of the changes to the Secretary of State’s proposals in light of them; and

  7. (g)

    the draft was approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Works and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 1 of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

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Footnotes

f1

2001 c. 6.

f2

Fifteenth Report on 8th March 2002, HL 92, ISBN 0104788100.

f3

Eighth Report on 15th March 2002, HC 691, ISBN 0 215 00235 0.