| Name of Order |
Brief summary
of the Order |
Date Draft Order
Laid |
House of Commons |
Lords |
Order
Made at Meeting
of Privy Council |
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Delegated Legislation
Standing Committee
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Approved by Commons |
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Provides rights for fathers and
adoptive parents to paid time off around the time of the birth of a child or
when a child is placed for adoption; improves maternity rights and places a duty
on employers to consider seriously requests for flexible working hours from parents
of young children.
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28.10.2002 |
04.11.2002 |
05.11.2002 |
06.11.2002 |
20.11.2002 |
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Provides for putting
in place a new methodology for the distribution of the resources element of general
grant payable to district councils; extends the powers of district councils to
promote economic development; and provides powers to district councils to engage
in community safety activity.
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15.11.2002 |
26.11.2002 |
27.11.2002 |
5.12.2002 |
17.12.2002 |
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Introduces a new method
for funding the costs associated with providing housing support services for
vulnerable people in supported accommodation.
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15.11.2002 |
27.11.2002 |
28.11.2002 |
5.12.2002 |
17.12.2002
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Bans the keeping of
animals solely or primarily for slaughter for the value of their fur.
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21.11.2002 |
02.12.2002 |
03.12.2002 |
16.12.02 |
17.12.02 |
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Improves the public
accountability of the Northern Ireland trust ports, principally Belfast, Coleraine,
Londonderry and Warrenpoint.
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21.11.2002 |
04.12.2002 |
05.12.2002 |
16.12.2002 |
17.12.2002 |
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Provides for the disqualification
of unfit directors by consent without the need for uncontested cases to be heard
in Court.
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25.11.2002 |
10.12.2002 |
11.12.2002 |
16.12.2002 |
17.12.2002 |
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Makes available to
small companies, attempting to enter a voluntary agreement with their creditors,
the option of a short moratorium during which they will be protected from legal
proceedings, thus providing them with an enhanced opportunity to put together
a rescue package.
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25.11.2002 |
10.12.2002 |
11.12.2002 |
16.12.2002 |
17.12.2002 |
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Combines the provisions
contained in the Assembly's Pollution, Prevention and Control; Local Air Quality
Management; and Areas of Special Scientific Interest Bills. Provides for a regulatory
framework for a high level of protection of the environment through the prevention
or reduction of emissions to air, water and land as a result of industrial activities;
will establish an effective local air quality management system; introduces measures
to allow for the better protection and management of Areas of Special Scientific
Interest; and will meet a number of EU commitments which are at various stages
of infraction proceedings. |
25.11.2002 |
03.12.2002 |
04.12.2002 |
16.12.2002 |
17.12.2002 |
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Reforms, updates, simplifies
and consolidates the procedures in relation to the formalities to, and the preliminaries
for, marriage, focusing on the steps which must be taken before a marriage ceremony
can take place. |
04.12.2002 |
16.12.2002 |
17.12.2002 |
12.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
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Reforms and updates
existing audit arrangements for public sector bodies. |
19.12.02 |
29.01.03 |
03.02.03 |
12.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
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Provides for the establishment
of a Commissioner for Children and Young People as part of a wider children's
strategy.
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18.12.2002 |
16.01.2003 |
27.01.2003 |
12.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
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Strengthens the arrangements
under which checks are carried out as to the suitability of those seeking work
with children, or adults with a learning difficulty. |
07.01.2003 |
30.01.2003 |
03.02.2003 |
12.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
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Restructures the framework
of regulatory and consumer representation institutions in the gas and electricity
sector; amends the licensing regime in these sectors; provides for the imposition
of a "renewables obligation" on electricity suppliers to promote the
generation and consumption of energy from renewable sources; provides powers
to implement the "postalisation" of gas conveyance charges to facilitate
the extension of the gas industry outside Greater Belfast and the connection
of the gas networks, North and South; and replaces transitional statutory provisions
relating to energy payments in the electricity and gas sectors.
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23.01.2003 |
10.02.2003 |
12.02.2003 |
11.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
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Provides for dealing
with the nuisance caused by the conduct of certain persons at residential premises
let to tenants of the Housing Executive and registered housing associations;
provides a more flexible grants system for the renewal of private sector housing;
and amends existing legislation to address issues including responsibility for
the register of rents, allocation of housing accommodation, caravan sites for
members of the Irish Traveller community and a registration scheme for housing
in multiple occupation. |
20.01.2003 |
11.02.2003 |
24.02.2003 |
13.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
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Provides
a power to introduce a single funding formula for the calculation of school budgets
for all schools funded under Local Management of Schools arrangements and makes
a number of technical or minor amendments to existing legislation. |
07.01.2003 |
04.02.2003 |
11.02.2003 |
10.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
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Combines the provisions
contained in the Assembly's Planning (Amendment) and Strategic Planning Bills.
Strengthens planning enforcement powers, gives primacy to development plans in
the determination of planning applications and assists the implementation of
the regional development strategy. |
16.01.2003 |
04.02.2003 |
13.02.2003 |
10.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
Family Law (Divorce etc.) (Northern Ireland)
Order
Dept. of Finance and Personnel
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Reforms the facts on
proof of which a divorce or judicial separation may be granted, or an order for
maintenance made; makes some changes to procedures in divorce and judicial separation
cases and states explicitly the power of both a divorce court and domestic proceedings
court to adjourn a case for reconciliation or mediation; and deals with three
anomalies of family property law to the allow the UK Government to ratify Protocol
7 of the European Convention on Human Rights. |
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Establishes an independent
body with overall responsibility for monitoring and regulating services delivered
by, or on behalf of, the Health and Personal Social Services (HPSS) and of services
delivered by the independent, voluntary and private sectors and for monitoring
the quality of care in the HPSS; introduces a statutory duty of quality and a
common system of regulation based on minimum standards; reconstitutes the main
appeals tribunal; and transfers responsibility for the inspection of care provided
in schools which provide accommodation to children to the new body.
A draft Proposal for an Order in Council and
accompanying Explanatory Memorandum was issued for consultation on 18 November
2002 with the deadline for comments due 16 December 2002. To view text click
here.
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07.01.2003 |
30.01.2003 |
03.02.2003 |
12.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
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Creates the Strategic Investment Board to ensure
that strategic infrastructure is planned and delivered in a way that makes the
most of all the means and resources available; and deals with the identification
of some strategic military and security sites which are to transfer to the Executive
free of charge, enabling use to be made of them for economic and social regeneration
of local areas.
A draft Proposal for an Order in Council and accompanying Explanatory Memorandum
was issued for consultation on 26 November with the deadline for comments due
by 24th December 2002. To view text click here.
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14.01.2003 |
04.02.2003
(Grand Committee) |
12.02.2003 |
13.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |
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Gives effect to the 2002/2003 Spring Supplementary
Estimates and Vote on Account for 2003/2004
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06.02.2003
(Grand Committee) |
12.02.2003 |
11.02.2003 |
27.02.2003 |