Tobacco and Vapes Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 2:00 pm ar 14 Mai 2024.
Gary Streeter
Ceidwadwyr, South West Devon
With this it will be convenient to discuss clause 77 stand part.
Andrea Leadsom
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
Clause 76 provides that any regulations made under the Bill may make
“consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional or saving provision”.
That is a very good set of words. This enables any regulations to introduce provisions for different purposes, as well as to make different provisions for different parts of the UK.
Clause 77 provides the procedures for making regulations under the Bill. Regulations made by the Secretary of State or Welsh Minister are to be made by statutory instrument. Regulations made by Scottish Ministers are to be made by Scottish statutory instruments.
Preet Kaur Gill
Shadow Minister (Primary Care and Public Health)
As the Minister says, clause 76 provides that, where regulations are made under the Bill, the regulations may make
“consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional or saving provision”,
and it allows regulations to introduce different provision for different purposes, as well as different provision for different parts of the United Kingdom. The explanatory notes to the Bill cite the helpful example that
“under powers in Part 5 (Notification requirements etc for vaping and nicotine products), different provision may need to be made for Great Britain and Northern Ireland”,
since Northern Ireland uses its own portal for publications. I expect our colleagues in the other place will have their own comments to make about the various consequential and incidental provisions in the Bill, but, as far as I am concerned, I am happy to see the inclusion of the clause.
Similarly, on clause 77, I have no substantial comments to make apart from noting how important it has been to ensure that the important new regulations that we are introducing through this Bill are implemented equally and at the same time across all four nations of the United Kingdom. I echo the Minister’s thanks to Ministers in the devolved nations for the constructive way in which they seem to have engaged with and supported the Bill.
