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  Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - New Clause 19 - Power to remove or reduce burdens
  
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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 <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/141/06141.1-7.html#j001">old clause 1</a>.</p>  
  
  <p>The major change was to replace the original proposal: </p>
  
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  A Minister of the Crown may by order make provision for...  reforming legislation...
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  In this Part "legislation" means... any public general Act or local Act, or any Order in Council, order, rules, regulations, scheme, warrant, byelaw or other subordinate instrument made under a public general Act or local Act.  
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  <p>with: </p>
  
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  A Minister of the Crown may by order under this section make any provision which he considers would serve the purpose... [of] removing or reducing any burden, or the overall burdens,
   resulting directly or indirectly for any person from any legislation.
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  In this section "burden" means [either]... (a) a financial cost, (b) an administrative inconvenience, (c) an obstacle to efficiency, productivity or profitability, or (d) a sanction, criminal or otherwise, for doing or not doing anything in the course of any activity.
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  <p>The original version was widely criticised as representing the abolition of Parliament since it the whole purpose of Parliament is to pass legislation, and this law would have allowed ministers of the government to pass it instead.  The new version is slightly more limiting, and was a climb-down, which is why all parties voted on the same side.  
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