Part 3: The Electoral Commission Membership of the Speaker’s Committee Section 18: Membership of the Speaker’s Committee
Section 18(1) and (2) make amendments to section 2 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to, PPERA, which set out the membership of the Speaker’s Committee. The amendments allow concurrent membership for the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and an MP who is a Minister of the Crown and is appointed by the Prime Minister (new sub-section (2A) of section 2) and clarify the meaning of "appointed member" in the context of concurrent membership (new paragraph 2(1A) of Schedule 2)).
	Section 18(3)(a) revokes the Transfer of Functions (Speaker’s Committee) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/310) which served a similar purpose to section 18(1). Section 18(3)(b) revokes sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) in article 7(1) of the Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1265) which are superseded by section 18(1).