Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act, 1949
shall also be referred to the joint committee; and that committee, after considering any such representations, shall, before reporting the Bill, inform the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons what corrections and minor improvements in the said enactments the committee are prepared to approve:
Provided that the committee shall not consider any such memorandum until at least one month after it has been laid before Parliament.
(4) If the joint committee approve the proposals contained in the memorandum, with or without alterations, and the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker inform the committee that they concur in such approval, the committee, after making in the Bill such amendments, if any, as may be necessary to give effect to any alterations made in the proposals, may, in reporting the Bill, report that the Bill, or the Bill as amended by the committee, as the case may be, re-enacts the existing law with such corrections and minor improvements only as have been approved by the committee with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and of the Speaker in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(5) The joint committee shall not approve any corrections and minor improvements, and neither the Lord Chancellor nor the Speaker shall concur in approving any corrections and minor improvements under this Act unless they are, or he is, satisfied that the corrections and minor improvements do not effect any changes in the existing law of such importance that they ought, in their or his opinion, to be separately enacted by Parliament.
(6) If the corrections and minor improvements approved by the joint committee with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and of the Speaker differ in any respect from those proposed in the memorandum laid before Parliament under subsection (1) of this section, the corrections and minor improvements so approved shall be appended to the report of the joint committee.
(7) When a Bill has been reported by the joint committee with such a report as is mentioned in subsection (4) of this section, then, for the purposes of any further proceedings in Parliament relating to the Bill, but not for any other purpose, the corrections and minor improvements approved by the joint committee with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and of the Speaker shall be deemed to have become law in like manner as if they had been made by an Act.
Interpretation. 2. In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—
- “corrections and minor improvements” means amendments of which the effect is confined to resolving2
