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Departments: Legislation

Volume 463: debated on Monday 10 September 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what legislative provisions introduced by his Department's predecessor since 1997 have not yet been brought into force. (149562)

The information is in the following table:

Act

Provisions not yet in force

Competition Act 1998

Section l(a)

Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998

Section 4

Petroleum Act 1998

Schedule 4 paras 8, 10, 11, 13, 34 and 40

Employment Relations Act 1999

Schedule 7, para 4(6)

Schedule 9, Parts 1 and 8

Electronic Communications Act 2000

Sections 1 to 6

Postal Services Act 2000

Schedule 9 of section 80 of the Post Office Act 1969 in so far as it extends to the Bailiwick of Guernsey

Utilities Act 2000

Section 20(7)

Section 75

Employment Act 2002

Section 28(4)

Section 30(1),(2) and (4)

Section 44

Communications Act 2003

Sections 272 to 274

Section 299(1)

Sections 299(3) and 299(4)

Section 300

Section 401

Section 409

Schedule 6 (which has been repealed)

Schedule 12, paras 5 and 6

Schedule 17, para 133(2)

Energy Act 2004

Section 89 (for the purposes of defining "relevant place" (other than where that term is used in section 93), "generate", "system" and "premises" in the Electricity Act 1989)

Sections 90 to 92

Section 139

Section 140(1)

Section 180

Schedule 23, Part 2, para 1, 3

Consumer Credit Act 2006

Section 5(1) to (4), (7) and (10)

Section 3 for remaining purposes

Section 4 for remaining purposes

Section 23

Section 26

Section 27

Section 28 for remaining purposes

Sections 29 to 33

Section 34

Section 35 for remaining purposes

Section 36 for remaining purposes

Sections 37 to 58

Section 62

Section 64

Section 69(1) insofar as it relates to paras 18 to 28 of Schedule 3

Section 70 for remaining purposes

Schedule 1, paras 1 to 10 and 12 to 16

Schedule 3, paras 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 to 28

Schedule 4 for remaining purposes

Work and Families Act 2006

Sections 3 to 10

Section 11(2) and (3)

Schedule 1

Paras 1 to 5, 10 to 15, 16(2), 17 to 20, 22, 24 to 30, 35 to 61

Companies Act 2006

Some of the provisions of the Companies Act 2006 are already in force but the majority are not. Each of the provisions remaining to be brought into force is scheduled to be brought into force on one of the following dates: 1 October 2007, 6 April 2008 or 1 October 2008.

Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007

Whole Act except sections 60 to 62 and 65 to 67.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what legislative provisions introduced by his Department's predecessors since 1997 have been repealed. (149563)

The information is as follows:

Act

Provisions repealed

Competition Act 1998

Section 4

Section 5

Section 7

Sections 12 to 16

Section 17

Section 20 to 24

Section 32(2)

Section 33(2)

Section 41

Section 48

Section 53

Section 55

Section 56

Sections 66 to 70

Section 73(7)

Schedule 1 paras 3 and 6

Schedule 2

Schedule 3 para 2

Schedules 4 to 6

Schedule 7 para 2(1 )(a), (3)(a) and (4), 4, 6(5),7(4) and 10

Schedule 8 paras 1, 4 and Part II

Schedule 9 paras 2 to 4, 6 to 7,

Schedule 10 Part I, para 2 and Parts IV and V

Schedule 11

Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998

Section 13

Section 14(1)

Section 17(4)

Schedule 1 , para 19, 21, 23 and 26

Fossil Fuel Levy Act 1998

Whole Act

National Minimum Wage Act 1998

Section 8

Section 23

Schedule 2

Amendments relating to the remuneration etc of Agricultural Workers

Part 1 :The Agricultural Wages Act

Para 4: sub-para (1)

Para 5, Para 6, para 7: sub-para (2)

Part 2: The Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act Para 15

Petroleum Act 1998

Schedule 4: paras 8, 10, 11, 13, 34, 40

Schedule 5: the repeals of the Employment (Continental Shelf) Act 1978, of section 287(5) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1 992, and of section 201(5) of the Employment Rights Act 1996

Wireless Telegraphy Act 1 998

Whole Act

Employment Relations Act 1999

Section 10(6)

Section 17

Section 18(5)

Section 28(1) and (2)

Section 33(1) and (3)(a)

Section 37(2)

Section 40

Schedule 4, paras 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15(a), 17 to 30 31 (a) 37, 40, 41

Schedule 6, paras 2, 3, 5(2), 7(3), (4), 9, 10(2), 11(2), 14, 15(2), 16(2)

Schedule 8 paras 2, 4, 6, and 7

Electronic Communications Act 2000

Sections 1 to 6

Section 11

Section 12

Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000

Section 10(2)

Schedule, para 1

Postal Services Act 2000

Section 20

Schedule 7 sub-paras 3(2)(h) and 3(2)(1)

Utilities Act 2000

Section 20(7)

Section 75

Schedule 8: the repeals of or in the Gas Act 1986 (sections 5(1), (2), 7A(12), 8A(1), 36(1), (2)(a), (c), (d) Schedule 2A, Schedule 2B, paras 7(2), 8(2)(b), 8(4) to (6), 8(8) and 9(5) the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and the Gas Act 1995, section 3(2), Schedule 1 and Schedule 3.

Regulatory Reform Act 2001

Whole Act except section 13(l)(b) and (2), the definition of "the 1994 Act" in section 14 and section 15(1) and (2).

Employment Act 2002

Section 5

Section 6(2)(a)

Section 18

Section 41

Schedule 6

Para 1 (a), (b), 9, 10 Schedule 7

Paras 3, 26(3), 33(3), 48(2), 49(3), 52

Enterprise Act 2002

Section 39(2),

Section 40(l),(2),(8)(b)

Section 51(2)

Section 52(1),(2)

Section 53(2)(c)

Section 69

Section 121(2)(b),(4)(c)(i), (10)

Section 168(3)(a),(4)(a) and (i),(5)(d)

Section 191

Section 194(5)

Office of Communications Act 2002

Section 2

Sections 4 to 6

Paras 1(4), 8(5), 17(8) and (9) and 20 of the Schedule

Communications Act 20031

Sections 152 to 163

Sections 165 to 184

Sections 393 (l)(b) and 393(5)(a), (b) and (1), 394(2)(c)

Section 404 (4)(b) and (c)

Section 404 (5)

Section 407

Section 410(l)(b)

Schedule 1, paras 1 and 2 Schedule 5

Schedule 6

Schedule 7

Schedule 8, paras 13 to 36

Schedule 17, paras 6 to 18, 23, 24, 26, 32 to 38, 46, 64 to 69, 72 (2), 145 to 151, paras 175(2) and 175(3)

Schedule 18, paras 6, 20,21, 23(l)(c)(i), 23(2), 55, and 63

Schedule 19, Notes 1 and 3

Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004

Sections 1 to 13,

Sections 19 and 20

Section 37(4)

Section 39(4)

Section 40(8)

Section 40(9)

Section 54(1), (4) and (9)

Schedule 1

Schedule 2 (Parts 1 and 2 and paras 22 to 24 and 26 of Part 3)

Schedule 6 (paras 1 to 9)

Schedule 7 (para 5(1)

Energy Act 2004

Section 89 (other than for the purposes of defining "relevant place" where that term is used in section 93 of the Energy Act 2004)

Sections 90 to 92

Section 139

Section 140(1)

Section 180

Schedule 23, Part 1, the repeals in the Pipe-lines Act 1962, the Gas Act 1986, section 4(1 )(b) of the Electricity Act 1989 and the Petroleum Act 1998

1 Many of the sections repealed in the Communications Act have been reinserted into the new consolidated Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006.