The 2003 Act received Royal Assent on 20 November 2003 but the introduction of st April 2004 until the NHS Costs Recovery Scheme has been postponed three times – from 1 st 1 November 2004 at the request of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) following publication of the final report on the review of Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance st st November 2004 until 1 April 2005 for (ELCI) in December 2003; again from 1 administrative reasons within the Department of Health (DH), in particular new procedures to scrutinise regulatory proposals that have cost implications for businesses; and lastly from st 1 April 2005 to October 2006 as a result of issues raised in the responses to the consultation exercises on the draft regulations for the Scheme, which were undertaken simultaneously by the Scottish Executive and Department of Health between September and December 2004. 28.