ANNEX K: REGULATORY REFORM PROPOSALS AND ORDERS - PARLIAMENTARY CONSIDERATION Parliamentary Scrutiny
5.Both Houses of Parliament scrutinise regulatory reform proposals and draft orders. This is done by the Scrutiny Committees.
6.Standing Orders in the Commons stipulate that the Committee there considers whether proposals:
7.The Committee in the House of Lords will consider each proposal in terms of similar criteria, although these are not laid down in Standing Orders.
8.Each Committee might take oral or written evidence to help it decide these matters, and each Committee could then be expected to report:
	whether the Minister should proceed to lay a draft order in the same terms as the original proposal, or
	whether amendment is necessary, or
	whether the order-making power should not be used (for example, because of the significance or sensitivity of the proposal).
Copies of Committee Reports, as Parliamentary papers, can be obtained through HMSO. They are also made available on the Parliament website at
	http://www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/drghome.htm for the Deregulation and Regulatory Reform Committee in the Commons; and
	http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld/lddereg.htm for the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee in the Lords.
9.After the 60 days for Parliamentary consideration, the Minister can lay a draft order before both Houses, this time for the approval of Parliament.
10.Each of the Scrutiny Committees examines the draft order to see how far its views have been taken into account. They report, within 15 sitting days, whether the draft order should be approved or not, and it would then be for the relevant House itself to take its final decision.
11.The final draft order then has to be approved by both Houses of Parliament before becoming law.