parliamentary controls

• p a n s q
• parent/enabling act - sets out limits which any delegated legislation can be made, parliament can repeal powers in act, parliamentary committees scrutinise delegated legislation to see if made appropriately
• control by parliament - checks on parent/enabling act, parliament can make or unmake law, power of repeal
• affirmative resolutions - statutory instruments not law unless specifically approved by parliament, can't be amended
• negative resolutions - (majority) statutory instrument becomes law unless rejected by parliament within 40 days
• positive resolutions - reviewed before passed as law
• questioning of gov ministers/bodies - MPs can question ministers in hoc about proposed/current delegated legislation
• scrutiny committees - review all statutory instruments, draw attention to both houses of parliament to points needing further consideration
• eval pro - scrutiny committee means many statutory instruments can be checked and debated
• eval pro - negative resolution procedure allows laws to pass quickly
• eval con - amount of delegated legislation means not all can be given proper scrutiny before coming into force
• eval con - many statutory instruments looked at not all can be looked at during negative resolution procedure so never challenged