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Last updated: 07 May 2010
Where a Bill is being pre-pared for publication and consultation, with pre-legislative scrutiny, it is important that the planning for the Bill should take account of the amount of work that the management of the consultation will involve. If work on the Bill is postponed to be done between publication and presentation to Parliament later in the year, it needs to be recognised that the work on the consultation may distract from that work. It needs to be programmed in and the resources needed for it need to be reserved.
If the intention is to use the OPC to continue to work on the Bill while the consultation is progressing, this needs to be mentioned early, so that they are not diverted onto other work.
Similarly, it needs to be recognised that there may be comparatively little time between the close of a consultation and the time when a revised Bill needs to be ready for introduction. This too needs to be recognised in the planning.
