Remember the Regulatory Reform Act that was meant to stream-line the passing of laws to repeal burdensome regulation?
And the proposed RR Order under the Act that would have removed LAs rights to restrict taxi numbers?
Well it seems that the RRA procedure was just as cumbersome as the standard legislative procedure, so a new Bill is currently going through Parliament with the intention of streamlining the process further.
A
Times columnist said yesterday:
The Government claims that it has no malign intention in introducing the reform to parliamentary procedures. It is just that it has such ambitious plans for deregulation — or “better regulation” as it rather suspiciously calls it — that Parliament won’t be able to cope. The previous Regulatory Reform Act, passed in 2001, was so hedged around with conditions and safeguards that it took longer to produce a regulatory reform order than it did to produce a Bill. So this time, the Government wants more sweeping powers.
During future detailed Commons consideration of the Bill, restrictions on the terms of the new orders will be resisted using the argument that business wants deregulation and government has to get on with it.
The full article is more about the impact on democracy etc, but if anyone wants to read it it's at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/ ... 25,00.html
(I'm not sure if this Bill was raised previously, but I can't remember it offhand.)
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