C1PART 3General

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Supplementary

I157Duties to lay certain reports before Parliament: further provision

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3

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.

4

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

a

a statutory instrument containing the regulations concerned, or

b

a draft of such an instrument,

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

5

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—

a

before the House of Commons at the time the instrument or draft mentioned in subsection (4) is laid before the House of Commons, and

b

before the House of Lords at the time that instrument or draft is laid before the House of Lords.