Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007

Referral of matters to, and reports by, the Welsh Committee

19(1)The Council may not make a report on any matter relating only to Wales until the Council—

(a)has referred the matter of the report for consideration, and report to the Council, by the Welsh Committee, and

(b)has considered the report of the Committee.

(2)Where the Council proposes to make a report on a matter that relates to Wales but not only to Wales, the Council must give the Welsh Committee details of the matter.

(3)The Welsh Committee may of its own motion make a report to the Council on any of the following matters so far as relating to Wales—

(a)any matter relating to the administrative justice system,

(b)the constitution or working—

(i)of listed tribunals in general or of a particular listed tribunal, or

(ii)of statutory inquiries in general or of statutory inquiries of a particular description,

(c)any other matter—

(i)that relates to listed tribunals in general, to a particular listed tribunal, to statutory inquiries in general, to statutory inquiries of a particular description or to any particular statutory inquiry, and

(ii)that the Welsh Committee determines to be of special importance, and

(d)any matter referred to the Council under paragraph 14(1)(c) or 15(c).

(4)If—

(a)the Council does not make a report on matters dealt with in a report made by the Welsh Committee under sub-paragraph (1) or (3), or

(b)in making a report on those matters, the Council does not adopt the report made by the Welsh Committee without modification,

the Welsh Committee may submit its report to the Welsh Ministers.

(5)Where the Welsh Committee—

(a)submits a report to the Welsh Ministers under sub-paragraph (4), and

(b)considers that the report could be relevant to matters that are the responsibility of the Lord Chancellor or the Scottish Ministers,

the Council must send a copy of the report to the Lord Chancellor or (as the case may be) the Scottish Ministers.

(6)The Welsh Ministers must lay before the National Assembly for Wales any report submitted to them under sub-paragraph (4).

(7)In sub-paragraph (3)(a) “the administrative justice system” has the meaning given by paragraph 13(4).