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  Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - New Clause "2" - Report on Operation of Act
  
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  <p>Those voting No rejected a <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/141/rs1411605.559-565.html">new clause</a> that would have been added into the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/141/06141.i-ii.html">Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill</a>.  The proposed clause would have read: </p>
  
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  [T]he Secretary of State must prepare and lay before Parliament an [annual] report setting out his estimate of the extent to which orders, rules and schemes made... [under] this Act have: removed or reduced any burden,... [imposed] a burden that has affected any person... [that] was proportionate to the benefit that was expected, or removed inconsistencies and anomalies in legislation.
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  <p>The requirement to make such a report would have arguably been an "administrative burden", which would have been an example where the Act could have been self-modifying.  </p>
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