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A consolidation bill is a bill introduced into the Parliament of the United Kingdom with the intention of consolidating several Acts of Parliament and/or Statutory Instruments into a single Act. For other uses see Bill. A bill is a proposed new law introduced within a Legislature that has not been ratified, adopted The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories An Act of Parliament is a Law enacted as Primary legislation by a national or sub-national Parliament. In Law, a Statutory Instrument is a form of delegated or Secondary legislation. Such bills simplify the statute book without significantly changing the state of the law,[1][2] and are subject to an expedited Parliamentary procedure. A statute is a formal written enactment of a Legislative authority that governs a Country, State, City, or County. Parliamentary procedure is the body of Rules Ethics, and Customs governing meetings and other operations of Clubs Organizations

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Consolidation bills are introduced in the House of Lords which, by convention, has primacy in these matters. The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords" The Lords has the only substantive discussion on the bill, at its second reading, before the bill is sent to a joint committee of both Houses which may propose amendments to it. Reading is a mechanism by which a bill is introduced to and approved by a Legislature. See also Committee A Joint Committee is a term used in politics to refer to a committee made up of members of both chambers of a Bicameral parliament Subject to this, the Lords' third reading and all readings in the House of Commons are usually formalities and pass without debate. The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords [1]

Most consolidation bills are proposed in the first instance by the Law Commission,[3][4] and it is this prior consideration that gives rise to the expedited process afforded to these bills. A Law Commission, or Law Reform Commission, is an independent body set up by a government to consider the state of laws in a jurisdiction and make recommendations on those [4][5] Every consolidation bill proposed by the Law Commission has been passed by Parliament. [6]

Once a consolidation bill receives royal assent it is known as a consolidation Act. The granting of Royal Assent is the formal method by which a constitutional monarch completes the legislative process of Lawmaking by formally assenting to an An example of a consolidation Act is the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000,[7] which consolidated into a single Act parts of sentencing legislation previously spread across twelve separate Acts. The Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing Act 2000 is a consolidation Act of the United Kingdom Parliament that brings together parts of several other In Law, a sentence forms the final act of a Judge -ruled process and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function [3]

Categories of consolidation bills

There are five categories of bill that qualify as consolidation bills:[8]

  1. Bills which only re-enact existing law.
  2. Bills which consolidate previous laws with amendments, proposed in response to recommendations from the Law Commission.
  3. Bills to repeal existing legislation, again prepared by the Law Commission. A repeal is the Removal or Reversal of a Law. This is generally done when a law is no longer effective or it is shown that a law is having far more negative
  4. Bills to repeal various obsolete or unnecessary parts of existing legislation.
  5. Bills which make corrections and minor improvements to existing legislation, prepared under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949.

The first three categories now account for almost all consolidation bills. [8]

Recent consolidation Acts

Examples of consolidation Acts include the following:

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References

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  3. ^ a b About Us. The Law Commission. Retrieved on 2006-06-15. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history
  4. ^ a b Statutory Law and Parliament - Legislative Procedure in the House of Commons. UK Law Online. Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds (October 1998). Retrieved on 2006-06-15. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history
  5. ^ House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution (2006-06-08). Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St Silverius becomes Pope (probable Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report With Evidence (PDF), London: The Stationery Office Limited, p. 32.  
  6. ^ Stuart Bridge (2003). Working For Better Law: The Role of the Law Commission. Retrieved on 2006-06-15. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history
  7. ^ Elizabeth II (2000, c. 6). Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000. The Stationery Office Limited. ISBN 0-10-540600-7.  
  8. ^ a b Companion to the Standing Orders and guide to the Proceedings of the House of Lords. The Stationery Office (2005). Retrieved on 2006-06-15. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history
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