More legislation is to be scrapped, CLG Secretary of State Eric Pickles has announced.
Among measures destined for the waste-paper bin of history is the requirement that local councils must detail their own energy savings on all council tax bills and leaflets. This regulation was due to kick in next year.
Also to go are Special Interim Management Orders, which were included in the Housing Act 2004 – the legislation that delivered HIPs and mandatory tenancy deposit protection to a less-than-grateful world.
The Orders were meant to give local authorities the power to take over the management of a privately rented property associated with anti-social behaviour.
But Pickles said: “The power is not well understood and has never been used.”
Altogether, 11 different pieces of CLG secondary legislation are on the list for revocation or simplification. For example, Pickles wants to combine 17 different Town and Country Planning statutory instruments into one.
More legislation to be binned, says Pickles
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The input of agents, mortgage providers and solicitors into anti-moneylaundering is also a nonsense worth removing. Why should up to 3 bodies be taking & storing this info? How about individuals data protection, its wrong to have such useful ID cloning info dotted about all over the place. Does it help the fight against criminals? I doubt it, how hard is it to fake a utility bill anyway? I hear that fake driving licences are only about £50 too so I don't believe our measures help against crims but I do believe they place the innocent at risk, so many copies of their genuine ID being taken.
Is there any chance that Mr Pickles can look at estate agency policing? Do we really need The Ombudsman Scheme, The Office of Fair Trading and Trading Standards Officers, who all seem to do fundamentally the same thing (in addition to the normal legal recourse, the police and the consumer association)? Given that the high percentage of sales involve solicitors, who presumably look after their clients’ interests, it seems vastly over controlled.