United Kingdom Law/Reform/Great Reform Bill

This page is an attempt to collate into a workable document a number of proposals for reform of items of legislation in the UK.

Contributing
Please be specific when adding suggestions for reform, The table headings for each section is indicative of what suggestions should include:

in question.
 * Clause - A numbering which should be incremented if adding a new proposal.
 * Legislation - Ideally the short form title and year for specific Primary legislation (typically the Act of Parliament), or title, year and sequence number for secondary legislation (typically Statutory Instruments or Regulations) which contains the laws, regulations or provisions to be repealed. If you are able to assist by clarifying the title in existing proposals, please do so.
 * Portion - The portion of the legislation to be reformed. If you are able to assist other contributors by making explicit the specific section a proposal refers to, please do so.
 * Wording - The wording of the reform, the text to remove, amend or insert.
 * Reasoning - A brief explanation or justification as to why this bill should be concerned with reform of the legislation

 Do not delete without consensus Please do NOT simply delete proposals from this page. Debate them instead.

Preamble
A bill to reform and revise a number of statutory measures in the United Kingdom.

Extent, commencement, transitional provision and short title
(1) This Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. (2) An amendment or repeal contained in this bill shall have the same extent as the Act or instrument or relevant part of the Act or instrument to which the amendment or repeal relates (ignoring extent by virtue of an Order in Council). (3) This Act comes into force at the end of the period of six months beginning from the date of Royal Assent. (This provision will give time for public and private sector organisations to adjust to the many reforms in this Act) (4) A Minister of the Crown, or two or more Ministers of the Crown acting jointly, may by order make transitional, transitory or saving provision in connection with the coming into force of any provision of this Act. (5) An order under subsection (4) is to be made by statutory instrument. (6) This Act may be cited as the  Reform Act 2012.

Applicability to Devolved assemblies
This bill shall neither add to nor subtract from the devolved powers of the National Assembly for Wales, the Scottish Parliament or the Northern Ireland Assembly.