Transitional legislation
A limited route for establishment, continuity and safe-operation legislation while the ordinary post-election House of Commons and House of Lords are not yet conducting the full ordinary parliamentary programme.
- Government sponsorshipThe responsible department or office brings forward the measure according to its function.
- Legal assuranceThe measure receives legal assurance through the Attorney General’s Office or the proper legal route.
- Finance and public-resource clearanceWhere a measure has financial or public-resource consequences, the applicable Treasury clearance is obtained.
- Committee scrutinyThe Committee on Transitional Government scrutinises the qualifying measure. The Committee cannot create legislation on its own initiative.
- Official publicationThe measure is published through the proper legislation and parliamentary record routes.
- Transitional operationThe measure operates on the basis authorised for the transition. The route exists only for measures necessary to establish, continue or safely operate the Realm before ordinary parliamentary machinery is functioning in the ordinary way.
- Post-election treatmentA measure intended to continue beyond the transition is subject to confirmation, amendment, replacement or repeal by the Parliament returned after the transition.
This route is not a third House and does not create temporary MPs.
The House of Commons and House of Lords remain the ordinary legislative branch. Transitional legislation must not be used to entrench the Coth Ministry, avoid Parliament permanently, recreate former HRC management structures or convert the former HRC Code of Conduct wholesale into law.