Consultation display
Making Laws in Wales
- This consultation has completed. It ran from Thursday, 3 April 2014 to Monday, 30 June 2014
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Response to the consultation
Evidence submitted in response to this Consultation
- ML1 - Higher Education Wales PDF 168 KB View as HTML (2) 8 KB
- ML2 - Estyn PDF 51 KB View as HTML (3) 48 KB
- ML3 - The Learned Society of Wales PDF 1 MB
- ML4 - Keith Bush QC PDF 148 KB View as HTML (5) 30 KB
- ML5 - Mold Town Council PDF 179 KB View as HTML (6) 17 KB
- ML6 - Flintshire County Council PDF 84 KB View as HTML (7) 8 KB
- ML7 - UCAC (Welsh only) PDF 461 KB
- ML8 - RSPCA Cymru PDF 334 KB
- ML9 - Professor Dawn Oliver, University College London, and Jack Simson Caird, Queen Mary University College of London PDF 264 KB View as HTML (10) 9 KB
- ML9 - Annex A PDF 956 KB
- ML10 - Welsh Language Commissioner (Welsh only) PDF 2 MB
- ML 11 - Your LegalEyes PDF 322 KB
- ML 12 - Welsh Local Government Association PDF 195 KB View as HTML (14) 42 KB
- ML 13 - Welsh Government PDF 487 KB
- ML 13 - Annex A PDF 1 MB View as HTML (16) 679 KB
- ML 14 - Citizens Advice Bureau PDF 1 MB
- ML 15 - SOLACE Cymru PDF 225 KB View as HTML (18) 15 KB
- ML 16 - British Medical Association Cymru Wales PDF 136 KB
- ML 17 - Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales PDF 11 MB
- ML 18 - Law Commission PDF 314 KB View as HTML (21) 96 KB
- ML 19 - The Queen's Printer - The National Archives PDF 606 KB View as HTML (25) 66 KB
- ML20 - The Auditor General for Wales PDF 74 KB
- ML20 - Annex A PDF 268 KB
Purpose of the consultation
The purpose of the inquiry by the Constitutional and
Legislative Affairs Committee is 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.
The consultation is now open until 30 June 2014. The consultation letter provides general and
more detailed questions that you may wish to consider in responding. Further information and details on how to
respond can be found at Annexe 2 in the consultation letter.
Supporting documents
- Consultation Letter PDF 196 KB View as HTML (1) 70 KB
- ML18 – Supplementary Evidence Law Commission Annual Reports
- ML18 –Supplementary Evidence: Protocol between the Lord Chancellor and the Law Commission
- ML18 – List of Recent Law Commission Reports and Implementation PDF 29 KB
Contact details
Should you wish to speak to someone regarding this consultation, please use the below contact details:
P Gareth Williams
Welsh Parliament
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1SN
Telephone: 029 2089 8008