3BProtocol 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.