The Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment) Regulations 2018

UK Statutory Instrument 2018 No. 98 — creates 3 criminal offences.

3offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 26 January 2018
In force from: Not determined
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
Made under: European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations amend the Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/310) (“the 2015 Regulations”). They update the 2015 Regulations to include references to the following Commission Implementing Regulations adopted since the 2015 Regulations came into force— a Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/2065 (OJ No L 301, 18.11.2015, p 14); b Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/2066 (OJ No L 301, 18.11.2015, p 22); c Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/2067 (OJ No L 301, 18.11.2015, p 28); d Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/2068 (OJ No L 301, 18.11.2015, p 39); e Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2016/879 (OJ No L 146, 3.6.2016, p 1). The Regulations also make provision for the appointment of certification, evaluation and attestation bodies by the Secretary of State, the disclosure of information on enforcement by HM Revenue & Customs to certain enforcing authorities and for the introduction of civil penalties in England, Scotland and for offshore installations. An assessment of the effects that this instrument will have on the costs of business is available from the Stratospheric Ozone and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Team, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Nobel House, Area 2A, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR and is annexed to the Government’s response to the consultation on www.gov.uk/government/consultations.

Offences created by this instrument

It is an offence for a person to breach, or to cause or permit another person to breach, the prohibition in Article… regulation 24 · Status not determined · Strict liability
Offences relating to disclosure of information held by Revenue and Customs 29A 1 It is an offence for a person to… regulation 25 · Status not determined · Strict liability
It is an offence for a person to contravene regulation 7A(3) if the disclosed information relates to a person whose… regulation 29A(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.

How Parliament handled it

This instrument became law without a debate or a vote. Under the negative procedure it took effect unless a motion to stop it succeeded, and none was tabled.

Procedure: Made negative — law unless a motion to stop it succeeded
Could either House amend it?: No. A statutory instrument is put to each House as a whole thing, to be approved or not. Neither House can change a word of it.
Committee: Drawn to the special attention of the Houses by a scrutiny committee

Procedural history

Instrument created 26 January 2018
Instrument made (signed into law) 26 January 2018
Laid before the House of Commons 30 January 2018 · Commons
Laid before the House of Lords 30 January 2018 · Lords
Considered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 20 February 2018 · Lords
No comment by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 20 February 2018 · Lords
Considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 7 March 2018 · Commons, Lords
Drawn to the special attention of the Houses by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 7 March 2018 · Commons, Lords
Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) draws the special attention of both Houses to the instrument on the grounds that it requires elucidation 7 March 2018 · Commons, Lords
Objection period ends 21 March 2018
Instrument remains law 21 March 2018
Procedure concluded in the House of Commons and the House of Lords 21 March 2018 · Commons, Lords
Instrument comes into force as law Date not recorded

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