PART 6Revocations and review
Revocations
16. The Regulations in column 1 of the table in Schedule 5 are revoked on the corresponding date in column 3 of that table.
Review
17.—(1) Before the end of each review period, the Secretary of State must—
(a)carry out a review of these Regulations;
(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and
(c)publish the report.
(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the Directive is implemented in other member States.
(3) The report must in particular—
(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations;
(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and
(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.
(4) In this regulation “review period” means—
(a)the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force; and
(b)subject to paragraph (5), each successive period of 5 years.
(5) If a report under this regulation is published before the last day of the review period to which it relates, the following review period begins with the day on which that report is published.