The Business Impact Target (Relevant Regulators) Regulations 2017

Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under sections 22(10) and 161(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Draft Statutory Instruments

2017 No. XXXX

Regulatory Reform

The Business Impact Target (Relevant Regulators) Regulations 2017

Made

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Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 22(9)(1) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015(2).

In accordance with sections 22(10)(3) and 161(4) of that Act, a draft of this instrument was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Business Impact Target (Relevant Regulators) Regulations 2017 and come into force on the twenty first day after the day on which they are made.

Relevant regulators

2.  For the purposes of section 22 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (and of sections 24A(4) and 26(5) of that Act), a “relevant regulator” means a body or other person specified in the Schedule.

Name

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Date

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

• British Hallmarking Council(6)

• Care Quality Commission(7)

• Charity Commission for England and Wales(8)

• Chief Inspector of Drinking Water(9) and other persons appointed under section 86(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991(10)

• Civil Aviation Authority(11)

• Coal Authority(12)

• Commission for Equality and Human Rights(13)

• Commissioners of Irish Lights

• Competition and Markets Authority(14)

• Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks(15)

• Director of Fair Access to Higher Education(16)

• Environment Agency(17)

• Financial Conduct Authority(18)

• Financial Reporting Council Limited(19)

• Food Standards Agency(20)

• Forestry Commissioners(21)

• Gambling Commission(22)

• Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority(23)

• Gas and Electricity Markets Authority(24)

• Groceries Code Adjudicator(25)

• Guardians of the Standard of Wrought Plate in Birmingham (the Birmingham Assay Office)(26)

• Guardians of the Standard of Wrought Plate within the town of Sheffield (the Sheffield Assay Office)(27)

• Health and Safety Executive(28)

• Her Majesty’s Land Registry(29)

• Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs(30)

• Higher Education Funding Council for England(31)

• Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England(32)

• Homes and Communities Agency(33)

• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority(34)

• Human Tissue Authority(35)

• Immigration Services Commissioner(36)

• Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh (the Edinburgh Assay Office)(37)

• Information Commissioner(38)

• Marine Management Organisation(39)

• Natural England(40)

• Northern Lighthouse Board

• Office for Nuclear Regulation(41)

• Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills(42)

• Office of Communications(43)

• Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation(44)

• Office of Rail and Road(45)

• Oil and Gas Authority(46)

• Payment Systems Regulator(47)

• Pensions Regulator(48)

• Registrars of companies(49)

• Regulator of Community Interest Companies(50)

• Security Industry Authority(51)

• Sports Grounds Safety Authority(52)

• Traffic Commissioners(53)

• The Trinity House (as defined in section 223(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(54))

• Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Goldsmiths of the City of London (the London Assay Office)(55)

• Water Services Regulation Authority(56)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 22(9) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c.26) (“the 2015 Act”), inserted by section 14(3) of the Enterprise Act 2016 (c.12) (“the 2016 Act”), gives the Secretary of State the power to specify in regulations bodies and persons which are “relevant regulators”.

Section 24A of the 2015 Act, inserted by section 14(4) of, and Schedule 2 to the 2016 Act places an obligation upon these regulators to publish certain documents. One of these documents is an assessment of the economic impact upon business activities of certain “regulatory provisions”. Section 22 of the 2015 Act determines which activities of these regulators will be classed as “regulatory provisions” and section 26 of the 2015 Act places obligations on the regulators in the event that the Secretary of State amends the business impact target framework. These Regulations specify the bodies and persons that are “relevant regulators”. These bodies and persons are listed in the Schedule to these Regulations.

A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/business-impact-target-growth-duty-and-small-business-appeals-champion.

(1)

Section 22(9) was inserted by section 14(3) of the Enterprise Act 2016 (c.12).

(2)

2015 c.26; amended by the Enterprise Act 2016 (c.12).

(3)

Section 22(10) was inserted by section 14(3) of the Enterprise Act 2016 (c.12).

(4)

Section 24A was inserted by section 14(4) of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to, the Enterprise Act 2016 (c.12).

(5)

Section 26 was amended by section 14(4) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to, the Enterprise Act 2016 (c.12).

(6)

See section 13 of the Hallmarking Act 1973 (c.43).

(7)

See section 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.14).

(8)

See section 13 of the Charities Act 2011 (c.25).

(9)

See section 86(1A) of the Water Industry Act 1991 (c.56).

(10)

1991 c.56.

(11)

See section 2 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c.16).

(12)

See section 1 of the Coal Industry Act 1994 (c.21).

(13)

See section 1 of the Equality Act 2006 (c.3).

(14)

See section 25 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c.24).

(15)

See section 63 of the Patents and Designs Act 1907 (c.29).

(16)

See section 31 of the Higher Education Act 2004 (c.8).

(17)

See section 1 of the Environment Act 1995 (c.25).

(18)

See section 1A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c.8).

(19)

A company registered in England and Wales with number 02486368.

(20)

See section 1 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (c.28).

(21)

See section 1 of the Forestry Act 1967 (c.10).

(22)

See section 20 of the Gambling Act 2005 (c.19).

(23)

See section 1 of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 (c.11), as amended by section 31 of, and paragraphs 13 and 15(b) of Schedule 3 to, the Immigration Act 2016 (c.19).

(24)

See section 1 of the Utilities Act 2000 (c.27).

(25)

See section 1 of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013 (c.19).

(26)

See sections 15 and 22 of the Hallmarking Act 1973 (c.43).

(27)

See sections 15 and 22 of the Hallmarking Act 1973 (c.43).

(28)

See section 10 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c.37).

(29)

See section 99 of the Land Registration Act 2002 (c.9).

(30)

See section 4 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c.11).

(31)

See section 62 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c.13).

(32)

See section 32 of the National Heritage Act 1983 (c.47).

(33)

See section 1 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c.17).

(34)

See section 5 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c.37).

(35)

See section 13 of the Human Tissue Act 2004 (c.30).

(36)

See section 83 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c.33).

(37)

See sections 15 and 22 of the Hallmarking Act 1973 (c.43).

(38)

See section 18 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c.36).

(39)

See section 1 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23).

(40)

See section 1 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c.16).

(41)

See section of the 77 Energy Act 2013 (c.32).

(42)

See section 112 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c.40).

(43)

See section 1 of the Office of Communications Act 2002 (c.11).

(44)

See section 127 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c.22).

(45)

See section 15 of the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c.20).

(46)

See section 1 of the Energy Act 2016 (c.20).

(47)

See section 40 of the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c.33).

(48)

See section 1 of the Pensions Act 2004 (c.35).

(49)

See section 1060 of the Companies Act 2006 (c.46).

(50)

See section 27 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 (c.27).

(51)

See section 1 of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (c.12).

(52)

See section 1 of the Sports Grounds Safety Authority Act 2011 (c.6).

(53)

See section 4 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (c.14).

(54)

1995 c.21.

(55)

See sections 15 and 22 of the Hallmarking Act 1973 (c.43).

(56)

See section 1A of the Water Industry Act 1991 (c.56).