Draft negative Grand Committee debate
Instruments subject to the draft negative procedure are laid in draft and do not require approval in Parliament before being signed in law. Instruments concerning taxation are not laid in the Lords. Either House may pass a motion within the objection period which prevents the instrument being signed into law. The instrument cannot be signed into law by a Minister until the end of the objection period.
Follows the calculation style Bicameral instruments (clock stops if both Houses rise).
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Debates in a Grand Committee takes place on a motion that "the Committee has considered" the statutory instrument. This is the most common form of debate in the House of Lords for statutory instruments before the question to approve the instrument is made in the Chamber.
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