Decision details
Supplementary Legislative Consent Motion - Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Provisions to require suppliers of goods and services to provide electronic data to customers
Decision Maker: Plenary - Fourth Assembly, Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Environment and Sustainability Committee - Fourth Assembly, Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee - Fourth Assembly, Enterprise and Business Committee - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Purpose:
The UK Government’s Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill (‘the Bill’) is currently being considered by the UK Parliament.
Sections of this Bill seek to legislate in areas of competence devolved to the National Assembly for Wales. Convention requires that the National Assembly for Wales (‘the Assembly’) considers consenting to this. The Assembly does this through considering legislative consent motions tabled by the Welsh Government.
Further information on legislative consent motions is provided in the Research Service’s quick guide The Constitution Series: 6 Legislative Consent Motions.
The first legislative consent motion is drafted as follows:
“To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with Standing Order
29.6, agrees that provisions of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, as
introduced into the House of commons on 23 May 2012 relating to amendments of
the Water Industry Act 1991, in so far as they fall within the legislative
competence of the National Assembly for Wales, should be considered by the UK
Parliament.”
Additional
information
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The first legislative consent memorandum in
relation to the Bill, laid on 12 June
2012, is available at: http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-business-fourth-assembly-laid-docs.htm?act=dis&id=235055&ds=6/2012
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The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
is available on the UK Parliament’s website at: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/enterpriseandregulatoryreform.html
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The Water Industry Act 1991 is available on
the legislation.gov.uk website: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/contents
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The Research Service’s Quick Guide The Constitution Series: 6 Legislative
Consent Motions is available at: http://www.assemblywales.org/qg07-0006.pdf
July 2012
Decision:
The item started
at 17.40
NDM5139 Edwina Hart (Gower)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance
with Standing Order 29.6, agrees that provisions of the Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform Bill relating to the requirement on the supplier of goods and
services to provide customer data in so far as they fall within the legislative
competence of the National Assembly for Wales, should be considered by the UK
Parliament.
A legislative Consent Memorandum has been laid in Table
Office on 11 January 2013 in accordance with Standing Order 29.2(iii).
The motion was agreed in accordance with
Standing Order 12.36.
Publication date: 29/01/2013
Date of decision: 29/01/2013
Decided at meeting: 29/01/2013 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly