HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament

to orders made under Acts passed before the Act of 1945 which
are specified in that Act, or to orders made under it; 1 and
to orders made under Acts passed since the Act of 1945 which
are expressed in those Acts to be “subject to special parliamentary
procedure”. 2
Laying of orders
10.45 An order subject to special parliamentary procedure must be laid
before Parliament. 3 No order may be laid until the requirements 4 of the
enabling Act, or of Schedule 1 to the 1945 Act, as to notices, consideration
of objections and holding of inquiries have been complied with; and notice
must be published in The London Gazette not less than three days before
the order is laid. There must be laid with it a certificate by the minister
specifying the requirements of the enabling Act and certifying that they have
been complied with or (so far as the 1945 Act permits) dispensed with.
Petitions
10.46 Petitions 5 may be presented against a special procedure order within
a period of 21 days, known as the “petitioning period”, beginning with the
day on which the order is laid before Parliament or, if the order is laid before
the two Houses on different days, with the later of the two days. If the
petitioning period expires on a Sunday, it is extended to the following
Monday; if it expires during a dissolution, prorogation or any period of 10 or
more consecutive days on which the House does not sit for public business,
it is extended to the day on which the House resumes.
10.47 There are two kinds of petition against a special procedure order:
a petition calling for amendments to the order, which must specify
the proposed amendments (a “petition for amendment”);
a general petition against the order, which must be presented
separately (a “petition of general objection.”).
1 s. 8.
2 s. 1.
3 s. 1.
4 s. 2.
5 s. 3; PBSOs 206, 201, 201A.
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