Disadvantages Of Delegated Legislation

Delegated legislation
Delegated legislation gives the government the ability to change or alter some features of an act of parliament without having to make an entirely new bill considering that making a new act of parliament is time consuming. Making small changes to an already existing act means that the process can be finished in much shorter time than making a new act. Within the delegated legislation lay 3 more sub divided sections and they are:
• Orders in council
• Statutory instruments
• By laws
Orders in council
Orders in council are used in times when a statutory instrument cannot be used in the particular context of delegated legislation. They are represented and given by the HM Privy council and is also approved by the monarch

The first and foremost being that it saves the parliament a lot of time and also money by dividing the tasks to other people thereby allowing the parliament to focus on issues that matter on a national scale, not locally, helping them solve issues in great detail. Furthermore, there is a lack of expertise skills that the parliament simply can’t match in certain areas so by providing other bodies to consult the law makes it far easier to deal with and analyse as they have the knowledge to create such a law. This is also leads on to the local people who are the only people to know their needs which parliament will have a hard time understanding due to their lack of expertise in the area of work unlike the local residents. Moreover, actions can be taken if an emergency so occurs and the delegated legislations can be taken away easily with pace if it seems to be causing issues. Though not everything is perfect and there are couple disadvantages, beginning with the fact that there are 3000 statutory instruments being made nearly every year which can be difficult to keep up with and they might lose track of it thus leading to some people not knowing the existents of such instruments because of the rate in which they are produced in makes them lose their focus. Also, parliament controlling delegated legislation isn’t always effective as they may lose track of the delegated responsibilities provided to others due to the high

E. Porter who was caught using her phone while driving. Such wrongful doing is dangerous especially If someone is traveling through the town centre which at most times is populated with people. Porter will get 6 points on her license and fine accounting up to £200. Though, if the case for some reason goes to court then she can face disqualification and a hefty fine of £1000 which most likely will take place at a magistrate’s court.
In the case of Mr. P. West who was caught for drinking alcohol in a public place where a by law was applied making such actions illegal. This type of delegated legislation is whereby the local authority has been given responsibilities to make a law for that particular area. He has broken the by law in the specific area and now has to be deal with the magistrates court who will decide the case even needs to be dealt with and what sentence is to be implemented for West. Most likely the magistrate’s court will impose a fine accounting up to £5000 and a jail sentence lasting a total 6 months. Although, in my opinion the fine or the sentence needs to be low especially if it’s the first offence just to warn Mr West of the legal issues he can face if he were to do it