Legislation – Deregulation Act 2015
1 Health and safety at work: general duty of self-employed persons
2 Removal of employment tribunals’ power to make wider recommendations
3 Apprenticeships: simplification
4 English apprenticeships: funding arrangements
5 English apprenticeships: disclosure of information
6 Requirements to wear safety helmets: exemption for Sikhs
7 Requirements to wear safety helmets: exemption for Sikhs: Northern Ireland
10 Taxis and private hire vehicles: duration of licences
11 Private hire vehicles: sub-contracting
12 Space activity: limit on indemnity required
13 Agricultural Holdings Act 1986: resolution of disputes by third party determination
15 Suppliers of fuel and fireplaces
17 Authorisation of insolvency practitioners
18 Auditors ceasing to hold office
19 Insolvency and company law: miscellaneous
20 Recorded rights of way: additional protection
21 Unrecorded rights of way: protection from extinguishment
22 Conversion of public rights of way to private rights of way
23 Applications by owners etc for public path orders
24 Extension of powers to authorise erection of gates at owner’s request
25 Applications for certain orders under Highways Act 1980: cost recovery
26 Public rights of way: procedure
27 Erection of public statues (London): removal of consent requirement
28 Reduction of qualifying period for right to buy
29 Removal of power to require preparation of housing strategies
30 Tenancy deposits: provision of information by agents
31 Tenancy deposits: non-compliance with requirements
32 Tenancy deposits: deemed compliance with requirements
33 Preventing retaliatory eviction
34 Further exemptions to section 33
35 Notice to be provided in relation to periodic assured shorthold tenancies
36 Time limits in relation to section 21 notices and proceedings
37 Prescribed form of section 21 notices
38 Compliance with prescribed legal requirements
39 Requirement for landlord to provide prescribed information
40 Repayment of rent where tenancy ends before end of a period
41 Application of sections 33 to 40
42 Optional building requirements
43 Amendment of Planning and Energy Act 2008
44 Short-term use of London accommodation: relaxation of restrictions
45 Short-term use of London accommodation: power to relax restrictions
46 Designation of urban development areas: procedure
47 Establishment of urban development corporations: procedure
48 Provision of advice etc about residential licences
49 Removal of restrictions on provision of passenger rail services
50 Road traffic legislation: use of vehicles in emergency response by NHS
51 Reduction of burdens relating to the use of roads and railways
52 Reduction of burdens relating to enforcement of transport legislation
53 Civil penalties for parking contraventions: enforcement
54 Removal of restriction on investigation of tramway accidents in Scotland by RAIB
55 Removal of duty to order re-hearing of marine accident investigations
56 Repeal of power to make provision for blocking injunctions
57 Reduction of duties relating to energy and climate change
58 Household waste: de-criminalisation
59 Other measures relating to animals, food and the environment
60 Management of child trust funds: looked after children
61 Management of child trust funds: children 16 or over
62 Child trust funds: transfers
63 Child trust funds: safeguards for children’s interests
64 Abolition of office of Chief Executive of Skills Funding
65 Further and higher education sectors: reduction of burdens
66 Schools: reduction of burdens
67 Sale of alcohol: community events etc and ancillary business sales
68 Temporary event notices: increase in maximum number of events per year
69 Personal licences: no requirement to renew
70 Sale of liqueur confectionery to children under 16: abolition of offence
72 Removal of requirement to report loss or theft of licence etc to police
73 Motor racing on public roads: general
74 Motor racing: road closures
75 Motor racing: consequential amendments
76 Exhibition of films in community premises
77 licensing: duty to review sanctions
78 TV licensing: alternatives to criminal sanctions
79 Repeal of Senior President of Tribunals’ duty to report on standards
80 Criminal procedure: written witness statements
81 Criminal procedure: written guilty pleas
82 Criminal procedure: powers to make Criminal Procedure Rules
83 “MAPPA arrangements” to cease to apply to certain offenders
84 Removal of requirement that prison closures be made by order
85 Power of HMRC to disclose information for purposes of certain litigation
86 CLC practitioner services bodies
88 CLC practitioner services: consequential amendments
89 The Council for Licensed Conveyancers: other amendments
90 Poisons and explosives precursors
91 London street trading appeals: removal of role of Secretary of State in appeals
92 Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004: enforcement
93 Reduction in regulation of providers of social work services
94 Electoral Commission: changes to facilitate efficient administration
95 LGBC for England: changes to facilitate efficient administration
96 NHS foundation trusts and NHS trusts: acquisitions and dissolutions etc
97 Access to registers kept by Gas and Electricity Markets Authority
98 Information contained in entries of births and deaths
99 Information contained in entries of marriages and civil partnerships
100 Repeal of duty to prepare sustainable community strategy
101 Repeal of duties relating to local area agreements
102 Repeal of provisions relating to multi-area agreements
103 Repeal of duties relating to consultation or involvement
104 Power to spell out dates described in legislation
105 Combining different forms of subordinate legislation
106 Ambulatory references to international shipping instruments
107 Legislation no longer of practical use
108 Exercise of regulatory functions: economic growth
109 Functions to which section 108 applies
110 Guidance on duty under section 108
111 Sections 108 to 110: interpretation
112 Consequential amendments, repeals and revocations
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Approved English apprenticeships
SCHEDULE 2 Driving instructors
SCHEDULE 3 Motor insurance industry: certificates of insurance
SCHEDULE 4 Agricultural Holdings Act 1986: resolution of disputes by third party determination
SCHEDULE 5 Auditors ceasing to hold office
SCHEDULE 6 Insolvency and company law
SCHEDULE 7 Ascertainment of rights of way
SCHEDULE 8 Provision of passenger rail services
SCHEDULE 9 Road traffic legislation: use of vehicles in emergency response by NHS
SCHEDULE 10 Regulation of the use of roads and railways
SCHEDULE 11 Enforcement of transport legislation
SCHEDULE 12 Household waste: London
SCHEDULE 13 Other measures relating to animals, food and the environment
SCHEDULE 14 Abolition of office of the Chief Executive of Skills Funding
SCHEDULE 15 Further and higher education: reduction of burdens
SCHEDULE 16 Schools: reduction of burdens
SCHEDULE 17 Part to be inserted as Part 5A of the Licensing Act 2003
SCHEDULE 18 Amendments consequential on section 69
SCHEDULE 19 CLC practitioner services: consequential amendments
SCHEDULE 20 The Council for Licensed Conveyancers: other amendments
SCHEDULE 21 Poisons and explosives precursors
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