Acts of Parliament of the 2014-15 Session


38 Bills received Royal Assent

These Bills are enacted into law as Acts of Parliament following completion of the Bill Process.
Acts of Parliament come into effect at midnight following Royal Assent, unless a date is specified within the Act.
Introduced: 5th June 2014

The Bill would improve and strengthen the Service Complaints system by transforming the existing Service Complaints Commissioner into a new Service Complaints Ombudsman. It also contains provisions relating to financial assistance for the armed forces community.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 5th June 2014

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th December 2014 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th January 2014

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.


This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 8th January 2015

A Bill To make provision for and in connection with the creation of a Northern Ireland rate of corporation tax.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 26th November 2014

A Bill To make provision in relation to terrorism; to make provision about retention of communications data, about information, authority to carry and security in relation to air, sea and rail transport and about reviews by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission against refusals to issue certificates of naturalisation; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 24th February 2014

To make provision about how offenders are dealt with before and after conviction; to amend the offence of possession of extreme pornographic images; to make provision about the proceedings and powers of courts and tribunals; to make provision about judicial review; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 14th July 2014

To Make provision, in consequence of a declaration of invalidity made by the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to Directive 2006/24/EC, about the retention of certain communications data; to amend the grounds for issuing interception warrants, or granting or giving certain authorisations or notices, under Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000; to make provision about the extra-territorial application of that Part and about the meaning of “telecommunications service” for the purposes of that Act; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th July 2014 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 3rd February 2014

A bill to make provision for the reduction of burdens resulting from legislation for businesses or other organisations or for individuals; make provision for the repeal of legislation which no longer has practical use; make provision about the exercise of regulatory functions; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 1st April 2014

A Bill To grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating tothe National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision inconnection with finance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th July 2014 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 23rd March 2015

A Bill To grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision about the safety of health and social care services in England; to make provision about the integration of information relating to users of health and social care services in England; to make provision about the sharing of information relating to an individual for the purposes of providing that individual with health or social care services in England; to make provision for removing individuals convicted of certain offences from the registers kept by the regulatory bodies for health and social care professions; to make provision about the objectives of the regulatory bodies for health and social care professions and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care; to make provision about the disposal of cases concerning a person’s fitness to practise a health or social care profession; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision about the handling of complaints by the Health Service Commissioner for England; to require the Commissioner to notify a complainant of the reason for the delay if the investigation of the complaint is not concluded within a twelve month period; to require the Commissioner to lay before Parliament an annual report giving details of how long investigations of complaints have taken to be concluded and progress towards meeting a target of concluding investigations within a twelve month period; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 25th November 2013

This Bill received Royal Assent on 23rd February 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 4th February 2015

A Bill to amend the House of Commons (Administration) Act 1978 so as to make provision about the membership of the House of Commons Commission, so as to confer a new strategic function on the Commission, and so as to make provision about the exercise of functions on behalf of the Commission or its members.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision empowering the House of Lords to expel or suspend members.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 5th June 2014

A Bill to make provision for strategic highways companies and the funding of transport services by land; to make provision for the control of invasive non-native species; to make provision about nationally significant infrastructure projects; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision about the Homes and Communities Agency and Mayoral development corporations; to make provision about the Greater London Authority so far as it exercises functions for the purposes of housing and regeneration; to make provision about Her Majesty’s Land Registry and local land charges; to make provision enabling building regulations to provide for off-site carbon abatement measures; to make provision for giving members of communities the right to buy stakes in local renewable electricity generation facilities; to make provision about maximising economic recovery of petroleum in the United Kingdom; to provide for a levy to be charged on holders of certain energy licences; to enable Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to exercise functions in connection with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative; to make provision about onshore petroleum and geothermal energy; to make provision about renewable heat incentives; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 17th July 2014

A bill to make new provision about insurance contracts; to amend the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 in relation to the insured persons to whom that Act applies; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2015 and was enacted into law.


Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill, it received Royal Assent on 26 March. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament (law).

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.


Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill it received Royal Assent on 26 March. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament (law). A Bill to make provision about the inclusion at local authority meetings of observances that are, and about powers of local authorities in relation to events that to any extent are, religious or related to a religious or philosophical belief.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision about the procedure for conducting investigations under Part 3 of the Local Government Act 1974; and to make provision for cases where an authority to which that Part applies takes a decision that affects the holding of an event for a reason relating to health or safety.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 18th December 2014

A Bill to make time-limited provision for vacancies among the Lords Spiritual to be filled by bishops who are women.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 10th June 2014

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.


This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 17th July 2014

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2015 and was enacted into law.


A bill to make provision about pension schemes, including provision designed to encourage arrangements that offer people different levels of certainty in retirement or that involve different ways of sharing or pooling risk and provision designed to give people greater flexibility in accessing benefits and to help them make informed decisions about what to do with benefits.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 3rd March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 11th September 2014

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to place a duty on local authorities to keep a register of individuals and community groups who have expressed an interest in acquiring land to bring forward self-build and custom-build projects and to take account of and make provision for the interests of those on such registers in developing their housing initiatives and their local plans; to allow volume house builders to include self-build and custom-build projects as contributing towards their affordable housing obligations, when in partnership for this purpose with a Registered Social Landlord; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 5th June 2014

A Bill to Amend the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the Computer Misuse Act 1990, Part 4 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009, section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Terrorism Act 2006; to make provision about involvement in organised crime groups and about serious crime prevention orders; to make provision for the seizure and forfeiture of drug-cutting agents; to create an offence of communicating sexually with a child; to make it an offence to possess an item that contains advice or guidance about committing sexual offences against children; to create an offence in relation to controlling or coercive behaviour in intimate or family relationships; to make it an offence to possess a knife or offensive weapon inside a prison; to make provision for the prevention or restriction of the use of communication devices by persons detained in custodial institutions; to make provision approving for the purposes of section 8 of the European Union Act 2011 certain draft decisions under Article 352 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union relating to serious crime; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 3rd March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 25th June 2014

To make provision about improved access to finance for businesses and individuals; to make provision about regulatory provisions relating to business and certain voluntary and community bodies; to make provision about the exercise of procurement functions by certain public authorities; to make provision for the creation of a Pubs Code and Adjudicator for the regulation of dealings by pub-owning businesses with their tied pub tenants; to make provision about the regulation of the provision of childcare; to make provision about information relating to the evaluation of education; to make provision about the regulation of companies; to make provision about company filing requirements; to make provision about the disqualification from appointments relating to companies; to make provision about insolvency; to make provision about the law relating to employment; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 12th June 2014

A Bill to make provision as to matters to which a court must have regard in determining a claim in negligence or breach of statutory duty.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2015 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision for an offence in respect of specialist printing equipment and related materials; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 4th December 2014

A Bill to make provision about stamp duty land tax on residential property transactions; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 12th February 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 3rd March 2015

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2015 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 7th July 2014

To authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2015; to authorise both the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund and the application of income for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised for that year by this Act and by the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2014.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th July 2014 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 14th October 2014

A Bill to make provision in connection with the taxation of pensions.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th December 2014 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 29th November 2010
- Private Bill

This Bill received Royal Assent on 4th May 2016 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 31st March 2014

To make provision about elections to and membership of the National Assembly for Wales; to make provision about the Welsh Assembly Government; to make provision about the setting by the Assembly of a rate of income tax to be paid by Welsh taxpayers and about the devolution of taxation powers to the Assembly; to make related amendments to Part 4A of the Scotland Act 1998; to make provision about borrowing by the Welsh Ministers; to make miscellaneous amendments in the law relating to Wales; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th December 2014 and was enacted into law.