Public Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023 Debate
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Baroness Hayman
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Public Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023
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Baroness Hayman (CB)
I am extremely grateful to the House, and I will be very brief.
No one has mentioned the last time we had a debate, with great passion, on the issue of statutory instruments and voting them down in 2015. I was torn on that occasion between what was a rather elegant delaying Motion, rather than one defeating an SI, and the standard regret Motion. I find myself in a very similar position now. I will not repeat the constitutional outrage that I think this statutory instrument is, or the arguments for maintaining the precedent, protocol and conventions of this House in not defeating statutory instruments, but this cannot go on for ever.