Pre-legislative scrutiny of proposed Legislative Competence Orders

1.  This is the twelfth proposed Legislative Competence Order (LCO) on which the Welsh Affairs Committee has reported. The full background to the LCO process in general and the specific details regarding this particular Order are contained in Annex A to this Report.

2.  We considered whether the proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Local Government) Order 2009 is in the spirit and within the scope of the devolution settlement; the extent to which there is demand for legislation which might follow the adoption of the proposed Order; and whether the use of the Legislative Competence Order procedure is more appropriate in this instance than the use of framework powers in a Westminster Bill. The process is described in Annex B to this report.