(1)The Lord Chancellor and the Law Commission may agree for the purposes of this section a statement (a “protocol”) about the Law Commission's work.
(2)The protocol may include (among other things) provision about—
(a)principles and methods to be applied in deciding the work to be carried out by the Law Commission and in the carrying out of that work;
(b)the assistance and information that Ministers of the Crown and the Law Commission are to give each other;
(c)the way in which Ministers of the Crown are to deal with the Law Commission's proposals for reform, consolidation or statute law revision.
(3)The Lord Chancellor and the Law Commission must from time to time review the protocol and may agree to revise it.
(4)The Lord Chancellor must lay the protocol (and any revision of it) before Parliament.
(5)Ministers of the Crown and the Law Commission must have regard to the protocol.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 3B inserted (12.1.2010) by Law Commission Act 2009 (c. 14), ss. 2, 3(1)