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Article 3 Review

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(1)

The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)

carry out a review of the regulatory provision contained in this Order, and

(b)

publish a report setting out the conclusions of each such review.

(2)

The first report must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the date on which this Order comes into force.

(3)

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

(4)

A report published under this article must, in particular—

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision referred to in paragraph (1)(a),

(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 article, “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015f1 (see section 32 of that Act).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

2015 c. 26. Section 28(4) was amended by paragraphs 7 and 11 of Schedule 3 to the Advanced Research and Invention Agency Act 2022 (c. 4). Section 29(5) was amended by section 18(2) and (3) of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (c. 28). Section 30(3) was amended by section 19 of the Enterprise Act 2016 (c. 12) and paragraph 36 of Part 2 of Schedule 8 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16).