3BF1Protocol about the Law Commission's work
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.