Report of the Examiner of Statutory Rules

to the Assembly and

the Appropriate Committees

23 November 2007

Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development	S.R. 2007 No. 465
Committee for the Environment	S.R. 2007 Nos. 460, 461
Committee for Health, Social Services and Public Safety	S.R. 2007 Nos. 450, 451
Committee for Regional Development	S.R. 2007 No. 463
Committee for Social Development	S.R. 2007 No. 467, 475

NIA 66/07-08

1. In accordance with the delegations in respect of the technical scrutiny of statutory rules under Standing Order 41(4)(b) given to the Examiner of Statutory Rules by the appropriate Committees on 11, 16, 17 and 18 May 2007, I submit my report on the statutory rules listed in the Appendix.

2. My terms of reference are essentially set out in Standing Order 41(6) (taken with the delegations under Standing Order 41(4)(b)) are as follows:

“( 6) In scrutinising an instrument the appropriate Committee shall inter alia consider the instrument with a view to determining and reporting on whether it requires to be drawn to the special attention of the Assembly on any of the following grounds, namely, that –

(a) it imposes a charge on the public revenues or prescribes the amount of any such charge;

(b) it contains provisions requiring any payment to be made to any Northern Ireland department or public body in respect of any approval, authorisation, licence or consent or of any service provided or to be provided by that department or body or prescribes the amount of any such payment;

(d) it purports to have retrospective effect where the parent legislation confers no express authority so to provide;

(e) there appears to have been unjustifiable delay in the publication of it or in the laying of it before the Assembly;

(f) there appears to be a doubt whether it is intra vires or it appears to make some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the parent legislation;

(g) it calls for elucidation;

(h) it appears to have defects in its drafting;

or on any other ground which does not impinge on its merits or the policy behind it.”.

Statutory rules to which attention is drawn in this report

3. I do not draw the attention of the appropriate Committees or the Assembly to any of the statutory rules listed in the Appendix.

W G Nabney
Examiner of Statutory Rules
23 November 2007

APPENDIX

(The attention of the appropriate Committees and the Assembly is drawn to those statutory rules marked in bold)

Statutory rule subject to affirmative resolution

The Road transport (Licensing) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/461)

Statutory rules subject to negative resolution

The Feed (Specified Undesirable Substances) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/450)

The Feed (Corn Gluten Feed and Brewers Grains) (Revocation) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/451)

The Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks) (Amendment) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/460)

The B7 Chapel Hill Road, Mayobridge (Abandonment) Order ( Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/463)

Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/465)

The Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/467)

The Social Security (Housing Costs and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/445)