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Last updated: 07 June 2010
OPC is able to respond to instructions to do any of the following—
All of the services that relate to Bills (or draft Bills) potentially constitute different components of the single comprehensive service that OPC provides for every legislative project that is given the go-ahead by PB_Committee, and also for every Bill (principally the Finance Bill) that is not subject to the PB Committee system. Even the vetting or drafting of any SI may be incorporated in the comprehensive service (eg where implementation involves SIs that make consequential or transitional provision).
OPC is also able to provide particular services separately and, as mentioned above, may be able to do so in advance of a successful bid or other formal authority from PB Committee. It is important to emphasise that a relationship between OPC and a department on a particular project does not have to begin with instructions to draft. Other services may be needed earlier. Indeed OPC should always be involved in the planning of a legislative project before instructions to draft are delivered.
The circumstances in which it is necessary or appropriate to ask OPC to vet or draft an SI are specified in more detail in the GLS SI Drafting Guidance.
Any question whether OPC are able, in special circumstances, to take on SI work outside the cases described there should be referred to 1st PC. Usually OPC vets rather than drafts SIs but circumstances may make it more appropriate to ask for the SI to be drafted on instructions.
