Making Laws in Wales
Making
Laws in Wales Summary Report
The purpose of the inquiry by the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs
Committee was to consider how laws are being made in the
Fourth Assembly, in particular by:
- considering the principles applied to the legislative drafting of Members’ Bills, and amendments, for the Assembly and identifying respects in which they conform with or depart from best practice in the United Kingdom and comparable jurisdictions;
- considering the impact of legislative competence on the drafting of Bills (including the possible impact of alternative methods of defining legislative competence);
- reviewing the purpose and effect of Explanatory Memoranda which accompany Bills, and other explanatory or background material;
- reviewing the effectiveness of the opportunities provided by Standing Orders for the scrutiny of Bills;
- considering the time allowed for the scrutiny of Bills, and other matters relating to Bill procedure;
- reviewing the scope and effectiveness of arrangements for “fast-tracking” Bills within the existing Assembly procedures;
- considering the capacity of the Welsh Government and National Assembly to legislate;
- considering issues relating to the management by the Welsh Government of its legislative programme;
- considering any other matters relating to the making of legislation;
- making recommendations.
Evidence from the Public:
The
Committee held a public consultation to gather evidence on this topic.
A plenary debate was held on the Making Laws in
Wales report on 20 January 2016. You can watch the debate again on senedd.tv
and you can also access the Record of Proceedings.
Responses:
Business type: Committee Inquiry
Status: Complete
First published: 18/03/2014
Documents
- Letter from the Deputy Minister for Farming and Food to Chair of the Environemnt and Sustainability Committee, 15 September 2015
PDF 231 KB - Letter from the Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Committee to the Minister for Natural Resources, 8 July 2015 PDF 175 KB View as HTML (2) 415 KB
- Letter from the Committee's Chair to the Chair of the Children Young People and Education Committee, May 2015 PDF 143 KB
- Letter from the Presiding Officer to the Chair of the Finance Committee, 19 May 2015 PDF 8 MB
- Letter from the Chair of the Finance Committee to the Presiding Officer, Budget Procedures, 5 May 2015 PDF 200 KB
- Letter from Dylan M Hughes, First Legislative Counsel to the Committee's Chair – 20 April 2015 PDF 634 KB
- Letter from the Chair of the Finance Committee to the Committee's Chair – 16 April 2015 PDF 166 KB
- Letter from the Business Minister, Jane Hutt AM to the Committee's Chair, 16 April 2015 PDF 343 KB
- Letter from the Committee's Chair to the Business Minister, Jane Hutt AM, 26 March 2015 PDF 206 KB
- Letter from the Committee's Chair to the Chair of the Finance Committee – 26 March 2015 PDF 114 KB
- Letter from the Committee's Chair to Dylan M Hughes, First Legislative Counsel 26 March 2015 PDF 127 KB
- Letter from the Committee's Chair to the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee – 11 February 2015 PDF 108 KB
- Letter from the Chair of Health and Social Care Committee to the Chair, 14 January 2015 PDF 194 KB
- Letter from the Presiding Officer to Theodore Huckle QC, the Counsel General, 8 May 2014 PDF 625 KB
- Letter from Theodore Huckle QC, the Counsel General to the Presiding Officer, 6 May 2014 PDF 638 KB
Consultations
- Making Laws in Wales (completed)