Powers relating to retained EU law Section 16: Power to remove or reduce burdens
This section amends Part 1 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (LRRA) to allow Legislative Reform Orders (LROs) to be used to amend any retained direct EU legislation (RDEUL).
	Subsection (2) inserts a new paragraph into section 1(6) of the LRRA to amend the definition of "legislation" in the LRRA to explicitly include "any retained direct EU legislation". This enables the use of LROs to reform RDEUL.
	Subsection (3) inserts a new subsection to section 12 of the LRRA. This subsection amends the LRRA to disapply the procedural requirements in paragraph 4 of Schedule 8 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 for existing powers to create subordinate legislation (including LROs) that may operate on RDEUL or REUL by virtue of section 4. This disapplies the requirement for relevant LROs to be subject to the same scrutiny procedure before Parliament as for amending primary legislation.
	The relevant LROs would still be required to follow the standard procedure, including consultation, committee reports and would be subject to either the negative, affirmative or super affirmative resolution procedure (with both negative and affirmative subject to scrutiny route being increased) as set out in the LRRA.