Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006

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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006^[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to enable provision to be made for the purpose of removing or reducing burdens resulting from legislation and promoting regulatory principles; to make provision about the exercise of regulatory functions; to make provision about the interpretation of legislation relating to the European Communities and the European Economic Area; to make provision relating to section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2006 c 51
Dates
Royal assent	8 November 2006
Commencement	8 January 2007[2]
Status: Amended
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c 51) (LRRA) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was enacted to replace the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 (RRA). The Act was and remains very controversial, because of a perception that it is an Enabling Act substantially removing the ancient British constitutional restriction on the Executive introducing and altering laws without assent or scrutiny by Parliament, and it has been called the "Abolition of Parliament Act".^[3][4]