Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Crossrail (Insertion of Review Clauses) Regulations 2014, and come into force on 30th June 2014.

Amendment of the Crossrail (Fees for Requests for Planning Approval) Regulations 2008

2.  After regulation 7 (resolution of disputes) in the Crossrail (Fees for Requests for Planning Approval) Regulations 2008(2) insert-

"Review

8.  (1)  The appropriate Ministers must from time to time-

(a)carry out a review of these Regulations;

(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

(c)publish the report.

(2) The report must in particular-

(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by these Regulations;

(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and

(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(3) The first report under this regulation must be published before 31st December 2021.

(4) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding eight years."

Amendment of the Crossrail (Planning Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (England) Regulations 2008

3.  After regulation 12 (power of determiner) in the Crossrail (Planning Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (England) Regulations 2008(3) insert-

"Review

13.  (1)  The appropriate Ministers must from time to time-

(a)carry out a review of these Regulations;

(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

(c)publish the report.

(2) The report must in particular-

(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by these Regulations;

(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and

(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(3) The first report under this regulation must be published before 31st December 2021.

(4) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding eight years."

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Crossrail (Fees for Requests for Planning Approval) Regulations 2008 (regulation 2) and the Crossrail (Planning Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (England) Regulations 2008 (regulation 3).

The amendments insert provisions in those Regulations requiring the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and the Secretary of State for Transport acting jointly to review their operation and effect, and to publish a report before 31st December 2021 and within every eight years after that.

Following a review it will fall to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and the Secretary of State for Transport acting jointly to consider whether those Regulations should remain as they are, or be revoked or be amended. A further instrument would be needed to revoke the Regulations or to amend them.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.