Section 57 Duties to lay certain reports before Parliament: further provisionI1

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If F2paragraph 21(2) of Schedule 2 (duty to lay report) is not complied with, the appropriate Minister who should have complied with that provision must publish a written statement explaining why that Minister failed to comply with it.

Subsection (5) applies where F3paragraph 21(2) of Schedule 2 applies and—

is laid before the House of Commons and House of Lords on different days.

Where this subsection applies, F4paragraph 21(2) of Schedule 2 is to be read as requiring the laying of a copy of the report to which that provision relates—