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:smiley: Legislative process (law-making) (Legislative stages (in P) (This…
:smiley: Legislative process (law-making)
The pre-legislative process includes the green and white paper
The green paper is the proposed reform of a law or to make a new law
The white paper is where the government would have a pre-consultation before the Drafted Bill (law) would go into parliament - consultation will include looking at the objective and subjective views on Bill and then introduced to P
Legislative process includes : the first reading > second reading > committee stage > report stage > third reading > other houses > royal assent
Legislative stages (in P)
1st reading
is a formal introduction (by sponsors (and this is where the name and main aims are introduced)) to P (can start in either house (HOL or HOC) - (but financial bills always start from the HOC) - this is where the MPs (elected members) are looking over the bill without debate (only looking at the objective and some subjective points) and make a vote (majority of the vote wins) and goes to the next stage
2nd reading
is where the formal debate on principles of bill by members of P available (MPs and Peers ) would look and debate
Committee stage
This is where the government ministers of that expertise would look at bill and make any amendments and examine the bill clause by clause (committee contains 16-50 MPs) although majority of MPs are also Government members therefore high chance of the bill to become law if the government promotes it and likes it
Report stage
This is where all the amendments of bill are referred back to the houses and have a chance to debate and vote on bill once again - accepted or rejected
3rd reading
This is the final stage before it goes to the other houses meaning this is the last chance for the HOC to vote and debate ( if 6 MPs request it which is unlikely )
This then goes to the other house (HOL or vice versa) - HOL would have to go through all the procedures (5) that the HOC has been through and they also follow the stages of DAVE
If HOL refused the proposal of bill that HOC really liked (the elected chamber) then it can go back and forth called the "ping pong" and due to this the Parliament Act 1911-1949 allowed the law to be by-passed the HOL (E.g. the Hunting Act 2004)
HOL consists of herditary peers (chosen to be in HOL due to their background - wealth) and life peers (chosen by doing good for society- minority)
Over 1,100 members in HOL ( 750 Hereditary peers and the rest are life peers + some judges and bishops) - 1999 Labour Government says that there should be more nominated members (life peers) therefore hereditary peers cannot automatically start persisting (getting involved) in law making.
Contemporary HOL format is having 92 Hereditary peers, about 640 life peers and 26 most senior bishops of church of England
Royal Assent
The queen and monarch signs it
A formal thing
Last time rejected was Queen Anne rejecting Scottish Militia Bill
When they are in P they go through stages of DAVE (Debate, Amend, Vote, Evaluate)
If law gets rejected from the elected chamber (HOC) then it cannot go back to Parliament within the next few months (year)