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Protection of Freedoms Act 2012

Section 48: Issuing of code

203.This section sets out the parliamentary procedure for approving the first code of practice made under section 47. Subsection (1) requires the Secretary of State to lay before Parliament the proposed code together with a draft order bringing the code into force. Such an order is subject to the affirmative resolution procedure (subsections (2) and (3)). If the draft order bringing into force the first code of practice is not approved, the Secretary of State is required to prepare a revised code; the draft order bringing such a revised code into force is again subject to the affirmative procedure (subsection (4)).

204.Subsection (7) disapplies the hybridity procedure should such procedure apply to the first order made under this section. The hybridity procedure is explained in paragraph 155.

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