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
- Brexit SSIs and SIs
- How to follow secondary legislation
What sort of things can be done by secondary legislation?
Secondary legislation can:
- give more information about how a law will operate
- be used to say when parts of the new Act should become law (when a bill is passed, it doesn’t always become law straight away)
- keep existing laws up to date