Correction made: Instrument should not have been laid in the House of Lords Procedures
A step of type Business step.
Most papers are laid before both Houses, while some, to do with financial/tax matters, are laid before the House of Commons only. Occasionally, a Commons only instrument is mistakenly laid before the House of Lords. Such instruments can be withdrawn and re-laid correctly or on rare occasions, a correction may be made in the House of Lords to declare the instrument should not have been laid.
There is 1 procedure.
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Made negative
Instruments subject to the made negative procedure do not require approval in Parliament before becoming law. These instruments may come into force on any date after being laid. Instruments concerning taxation are not laid in the Lords. Either House may pass a motion within the objection period which annuls the instrument and stops it having effect.