Report of the
Examiner of Statutory Rules
to
the Assembly
and
the Appropriate Committees

24 November 2010
NIA 23/10/11R

Committee for Enterprise, Trade and Investment	S.R. 2010 Nos. 365, 366
Committee for the Environment	S.R. 2010 Nos. 369, 371, 372
Committee for Health, Social Services and Public Safety	S.R. 2010 No. 375, 376
Committee for Social Development	S.R. 2010 No. 373

1 1. In accordance with the delegations in respect of the technical scrutiny of statutory rules under Standing Order 41(4)(b) (now renumbered as Standing Order 43(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 43(6) (taken with the delegations under Standing Order 43(4)(b)). They 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 attention to any of the statutory rules listed in the Appendix.

W G Nabney

Examiner of Statutory Rules

24 November 2010

Appendix

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

Statutory rules subject to negative resolution

The Units of Measurement Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/365)

The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/366)

The Clean Air (Exempted Fireplaces) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/369)

The Road Traffic Fixed Penalty (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/371)

The Road Traffic Fixed Penalty (Procedure) (Vehicle Examiners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/372)

The Occupational, Personal and Stakeholder Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/373)

The Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs Etc) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/375)

The Health and Personal Social Services (Primary Medical Services Performers Lists) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/376)

Report of the Examiner of Statutory Rules to the Assembly and the Appropriate Committees