House of Lords House of Commons Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments Third Report of Session 2019–21 Drawing special attention to: The following 15 statutory instruments Social Security (Iceland) (Liechtenstein) (Norway) (Citizens’ Rights Agreement) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1302) Social Security (Switzerland) (Citizens’ Rights Agreement) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1303) Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1335) Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1367) Magistrates’ Courts (Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, Part 5A and Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1368) Magistrates’ Courts (Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, Part 5B) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1369) Continued on next page Ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 26 February 2020 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 26 February 2020 HL 26 HC 75-iii Published on 28 February 2020 by authority of the House of Lords and the House of Commons Accreditation of Forensic Service Providers (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1384) M11 Motorway (Junctions 8 to 90 (Offside Lane Restriction) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1428) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1440) Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1441) Anguilla Constitution (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1461) Fishery Products (Official Controls Charges) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1474) Official Feed and Food Controls (England) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1476) Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1511) Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514) Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments Current membership House of Lords Lord Colgrain (Conservative) Lord Haskel (Labour) Lord Morris of Handsworth (Labour) Baroness Newlove (Conservative) Lord Rowe-Beddoe (Crossbench) Baroness Scott of Needham Market (Liberal Democrat) Lord Stirrup (Crossbench) House of Commons Jessica Morden MP (Labour, Newport East) (Chair) Dr James Davies MP (Conservative, Vale of Clwyd) Eddie Hughes MP (Conservative, Walsall North) John Lamont MP (Conservative, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) Sir Robert Syms MP (Conservative, Poole) Owen Thompson MP (Scottish National Party, Midlothian) Liz Twist MP (Labour, Blaydon) Powers The full constitution and powers of the Committee are set out in House of Commons Standing Order No. 151 and House of Lords Standing Order No. 73, relating to Public Business. Remit The Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) is appointed to consider statutory instruments made in exercise of powers granted by Act of Parliament. Instruments not laid before Parliament are included within the Committee’s remit; but local instruments and instruments made by devolved administrations are not considered by JCSI unless they are required to be laid before Parliament. The role of the JCSI, whose membership is drawn from both Houses of Parliament, is to assess the technical qualities of each instrument that falls within its remit and to decide whether to draw the special attention of each House to any instrument on one or more of the following grounds: i that it imposes, or sets the amount of, a charge on public revenue or that it requires payment for a licence, consent or service to be made to the Exchequer, a government department or a public or local authority, or sets the amount of the payment; ii that its parent legislation says that it cannot be challenged in the courts; iii that it appears to have retrospective effect without the express authority of the parent legislation; iv that there appears to have been unjustifiable delay in publishing it or laying it before Parliament; v that there appears to have been unjustifiable delay in sending a notification under the proviso to section 4(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946, where the instrument has come into force before it has been laid; vi that there appears to be doubt about whether there is power to make it or that it appears to make an unusual or unexpected use of the power to make; vii that its form or meaning needs to be explained; viii that its drafting appears to be defective; ix any other ground which does not go to its merits or the policy behind it. The Committee usually meets weekly when Parliament is sitting. Publications © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2019. This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament Licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/copyright. The reports of the Committee are published by Order of both Houses. All publications of the Committee are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/jcsi. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Liz Booth (Committee Assistant), Luanne Middleton (Commons Clerk), Christine Salmon Percival (Lords Clerk). Advisory Counsel: Klara Banaszak, Daniel Greenberg, and Vanessa MacNair (Commons); Nicholas Beach, James Cooper, and Ché Diamond (Lords). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, House of Commons, London SW1A OAA. The telephone number for general inquiries is: 020 7219 2026; the Committee’s email address is: [email protected]. Third Report of Session 2019–21 1 Contents Instruments reported 4 1 S.I. 2019/1302: Reported for requiring elucidation and for defective drafting 4 Social Security (Iceland) (Liechtenstein) (Norway) (Citizens’ Rights Agreement) Order 2019 4 S.I. 2019/1303: Reported for requiring elucidation and for defective drafting 4 Social Security (Switzerland) (Citizens’ Rights Agreement) Order 2019 4 2 S.I. 2019/1335: Reported for defective drafting 5 Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 5 3 S.I. 2019/1367: Reported for defective drafting 5 Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2019 5 4 S.I. 2019/1368: Reported for requiring elucidation 6 Magistrates’ Courts (Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, Part 5A and Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2019 6 S.I. 2019/1369: Reported for requiring elucidation 6 Magistrates’ Courts (Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, Part 5B) Rules 2019 6 5 S.I. 2019/1384: Reported for requiring elucidation 7 Accreditation of Forensic Service Providers (Amendment) Regulations 2019 7 6 S.I. 2019/1428: Reported for defective drafting 8 M11 Motorway (Junctions 8 to 90 (Offside Lane Restriction) Regulations 2019 8 7 S.I. 2019/1440: Reported for requiring elucidation and for defective drafting 8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 8 8 S.I. 2019/1441: Reported for defective drafting 9 Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2019 9 9 S.I. 2019/1461: Reported for requiring elucidation 9 Anguilla Constitution (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2019 9 10 S.I. 2019/1474: Reported for defective drafting 10 Fishery Products (Official Controls Charges) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 10 11 S.I. 2019/1476: Reported for defective drafting 11 Official Feed and Food Controls (England) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 11 12 S.I. 2019/1511: Reported for defective drafting 11 Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 11 13 S.I. 2019/1514: Reported for defective drafting, for requiring elucidation and for doubtful vires 12 2 Third Report of Session 2019–21 Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 12 Instruments not reported 15 Annex 15 Appendix 1 17 S.I. 2019/1302 17 Social Security (Iceland) (Liechtenstein) (Norway) (Citizens’ Rights Agreement) Order 2019 17 S.I. 2019/1303 17 Social Security (Switzerland) (Citizens’ Rights Agreement) Order 2019 17 Appendix 2 20 S.I. 2019/1335 20 Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 20 Appendix 3 21 S.I. 2019/1367 21 Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2019 21 Appendix 4 23 S.I. 2019/1368 23 Magistrates’ Courts (Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, Part 5A and Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2019 23 S.I. 2019/1369 23 Magistrates’ Courts (Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, Part 5B) Rules 2019 23 Appendix 5 25 S.I. 2019/1384 25 Accreditation of Forensic Service Providers (Amendment) Regulations 2019 25 Appendix 6 26 S.I. 2019/1428 26 M11 Motorway (Junctions 8 to 90 (Offside Lane Restriction) Regulations 2019 26 Appendix 7 27 S.I. 2019/1440 27 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 27 Third Report of Session 2019–21 3 Appendix 8 29 S.I. 2019/1441 29 Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2019 29 Appendix 9 30 S.I. 2019/1461 30 Anguilla Constitution (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2019 30 Appendix 10 32 S.I. 2019/1474 32 Fishery Products (Official Controls Charges) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 32 Appendix 11 33 S.I. 2019/1476 33 Official Feed and Food Controls (England) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 33 Appendix 12 34 S.I. 2019/1511 34 Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 34 Appendix 13 35 S.I. 2019/1514 35 Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 35 Appendix 14 39 S.I. 2019/1351 39 Local Government Pension Scheme (West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority Pension Fund and West Midlands Pension Fund Merger) Regulations 2019 39 4 Third Report of Session 2019–21 Instruments reported At its meeting on 26 February 2020 the Committee scrutinised a number of Instruments in accordance with Standing Orders. It was agreed that the special attention of both Houses should be drawn to 15 of those considered.