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  Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - New Clause "21" - Power to implement Law Commission recommendations
  
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  <p>Those voting Aye agreed that a <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/141/rs1411505.553-557.html">new clause</a> be added into the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/141/06141.i-ii.html">Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill</a> that was understood to be replacing the functions of the part 1(b) of <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/141/06141.1-7.html#j001">old clause 1</a>, the first part of which was replaced in <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2006-05-15&number=231"> Division 231</a>.</p>  
  
  <p>The important text of the new clause read:</p>
  
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  A Minister of the Crown may by order under this section make any provision which he considers [necessary to implement the] recommendations of any one or more of the United Kingdom <a href="http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/">Law Commissions</a>, with or without changes. 
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  [T]he provisions... include... amending or abolishing any rule of law,... conferring functions on any person,... [and] abolishing a body or office established by... an enactment.
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  <p>A small change to this new clause was rejected in <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2006-05-15&number=234">Division 234</a>.</p>
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