Eval - delegated legislation

• Advantage: quick and easy

  • easy to keep up to date
  • Useful for laws that constantly need changing (monetary rates national living wage)
• Advantage: locally accountable

  • Parliament is not involved
  • Local accountability through bylaws
  • Allows local variation to meet local needs
• Advantage: consultation

  • More consultations take place before they are drawn up
  • Ensures they are workable
• Asvantage: controls

  • No abuse of powers as others check it
• Advantage: political convenience

  • Not made very public
  • avoids media scrutiny and opposition
• Disadvantage: lack of parliament scrutiny

  • No time for parliament to scrutinise dl
  • Not reviewing it properly
• Disadvantage: undemocratic

  • Being made by non elected people
  • Democratically elected house of commons doesn’t do this
• Disadvantage: large volume

  • process not being made public
  • Don’t know how many are being passed without public’s opinion
  • Difficult to know what the law is
• Disadvantage: difficult wording

  • Can be hard to understand the law
  • SI may be used to understand