Secondary legislation
Find out about secondary legislation
Contents
- What is secondary legislation
- What sort of things can be done by secondary legislation
- What is the difference between primary and secondary legislation
- How do committees look at secondary legislation
- How does the Parliament look at secondary legislation
- Affirmative SSIs
- Negative SSIs
- No procedure or laid only SSIs
- Provisional affirmative SSIs
- Super affirmative SSIs
- Statutory Instruments (SIs)
- How to follow secondary legislation
Provisional affirmative SSIs
Provisional affirmative SSIs are not very common. They are usually used for emergency situations because they can make changes straight away before Parliament has looked at the SSI. The SSI must get Parliament’s approval within 28 days for the changes it makes to remain law.
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No procedure or laid only SSIs