2022 No. 1360

Parliament

The Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body (Abolition) Regulations 2022

Made15th December 2022

Coming into force1st January 2023

The Leader of the House of Commons makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 10 of the Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019¹.

The Corporate Officer of the House of Commons and the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords have consented to the transfers to them effected by this instrument in accordance with section 10(3) of that Act.

The Leader of the House of Commons has consulted the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons, the House of Commons Commission, the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords and the House of Lords Commission, in accordance with section 10(8)(a) of that Act.

The Leader of the House of Commons has obtained the consent of the Leader of the House of Lords to the making of these Regulations in accordance with section 10(8)(b) of that Act.

In accordance with section 10(9) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

^I11 Citation and commencement¶

These Regulations may be cited as the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body (Abolition) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 1st January 2023.

^I22 Interpretation¶

In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019;
“the Corporate Officers” means the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons and the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords, acting jointly; and
“the Sponsor Body” means the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body.

^I33 Abolition of Sponsor Body¶

The Sponsor Body is hereby abolished.

^I44 Transfer of functions¶

1 The functions of the Sponsor Body are hereby transferred to the Corporate Officers.

2 In particular—

a the Corporate Officers have overall responsibility for the Parliamentary building works; and

b the provisions of section 2(2) to (5) of the Act (Sponsor Body) continue to apply in relation to the Corporate Officers as they applied to the Sponsor Body.

^I55 Transfer of property¶

1 The property, rights and liabilities of the Sponsor Body are hereby transferred to the Corporate Officers (to be held jointly).

2 Paragraph (1) includes rights and liabilities under contracts of employment; and the provisions of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006² shall be treated as if they applied to the transfer under paragraph (1).

^I66 Delivery Authority¶

1 The Delivery Authority (formed by the Sponsor Body in accordance with section 3(1) of the Act) continues in existence.

2 The Corporate Officers (acting jointly) become the only member and guarantor of the Delivery Authority.

^I77 Annual report¶

After section 2 of the Act insert—

^I88 Finance¶

For section 9 of the Act (funding) substitute—

9 Funding

1 The Corporate Officers may pay grants, or give any other form of financial assistance, to the Delivery Authority for the purpose of enabling the Delivery Authority to exercise its functions.

2 Financial assistance under subsection (1) may be given at such times, and subject to such conditions, as the Corporate Officers consider appropriate.

3 The Corporate Officers’ expenditure under this section is to be met out of money provided by Parliament.

4 Schedule 4 contains provision about the preparation of estimates by the Corporate Officers for the purposes of this section (and references in that Schedule to expenditure of the Corporate Officers are to be treated as referring only to expenditure under this section).

5 The Corporate Officers may make such arrangements as they consider appropriate to coordinate the preparation and management of estimates in accordance with Schedule 4 with the preparation and management of estimates prepared in respect of the costs of the performance of their functions (apart from the function of funding the Delivery Authority) under this Act.

^I99 Consequential amendments and modifications of the Act¶

1 The Act is hereby amended and modified as follows.

2 The following provisions cease to have effect—

a section 2(1) and (6) and Schedule 1 (the Sponsor Body);

b section 6 (relationship between Sponsor Body and Parliament);

c section 11(b)(i) and (ii) (dissolution of Delivery Authority: consent of Corporate Officers); and

d paragraph 1(2)(b) of Schedule 3 (the Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission).

3 After section 2(1) insert—

4 In section 10 (abolition of Sponsor Body and Estimates Commission)—

a omit subsection (1)(a);

b for subsection (2) substitute—

;

c in subsections (3), (4) and (5) for “subsection (1)(a)” substitute “subsection (2)”;

d in subsection (5)(b) and (c), for “the Sponsor Body” substitute “the Corporate Officers”; and

e in subsections (8) and (9) for “subsection (1)” substitute “subsection (1) or (2)”.

5 In section 12(1) (interpretation)—

a before the definition of “the Delivery Authority” insert—

; and

b at the end of the definition of “the Sponsor Body” add “(but by virtue of regulation 9(7) of the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body (Abolition) Regulations 2022 references to the Sponsor Body in this Act are after the commencement of those Regulations to be treated as references to the Corporate Officers).”.

6 In Schedule 2 (Delivery Authority)—

a for paragraph 1(3)(d) substitute—

;

b in paragraph 1(4) for “and (d)” substitute “and (da)”;

c for paragraph 4(1)(d) (and the word “or” immediately before it) substitute—

;

d in paragraph 4(2) for “and (d)” substitute “and (e)”;

e in paragraph 9(3) for “The Sponsor Body’s accounting officer” substitute “The Corporate Officers”;

f in paragraph 9(4) for “the Sponsor Body’s accounting officer” substitute “the Corporate Officers”; and

g in paragraph 10(3) for “the Sponsor Body’s accounting officer” substitute “the Corporate Officers”.

7 In so far as is necessary in consequence of a transfer effected by these Regulations, a reference to the Sponsor Body in a provision of the Act (including a provision specially mentioned elsewhere in these Regulations) is to be taken as being, or including, a reference to the Corporate Officers.

^I1010 Amendment of other legislation¶

1 In Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972³ (kinds of employment to which a scheme under section 1 of that Act can apply) omit the reference to the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body.

2 In Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000⁴ (other public bodies and offices which are public authorities) omit the reference to the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body.

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4 In Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015⁵ (GPA Annex 1 Contracting Authorities) omit the reference to the Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body.

^I1111 Continuity of the law¶

1 These Regulations remain in force despite the amendment of section 10 of the Act by regulation 9(4).

2 Anything (including legal proceedings) which, at the coming into force of these Regulations, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Sponsor Body may be continued by or in relation to the Corporate Officers.

3 Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Sponsor Body has effect, so far as is necessary for continuing its effect after the coming into force of these Regulations, as if done by or in relation to the Corporate Officers.

4 Any enactment, instrument or document passed, made or issued before the coming into force of these Regulations (including, in particular, the programme delivery agreement under section 4 of the Act (relationship between the Sponsor Body and the Delivery Authority)) has effect, so far as necessary in consequence of a transfer under these Regulations, as if references to the Sponsor Body were or included references to the Corporate Officers.

Footnotes

I1
Reg. 1 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I2
Reg. 2 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I3
Reg. 3 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I4
Reg. 4 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I5
Reg. 5 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I6
Reg. 6 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I7
Reg. 7 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I8
Reg. 8 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I9
Reg. 9 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I10
Reg. 10 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
I11
Reg. 11 in force at 1.1.2023, see reg. 1
F1
Reg. 10(3) revoked (24.2.2025) by The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), reg. 1(2), Sch. Pt. 2
1
2019 c. 27.
2
S.I. 2006/246, amended by S.I. 2009/592, 2010/93, 2014/16, 386, 853.
3
1972 c. 11, the reference was inserted by paragraph 18(1) of Schedule 1 to the Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019 (c. 27).
4
2000 c. 36, the reference was inserted by paragraph 29 of Schedule 1(2) to the Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019 (c. 27).
5
S.S.I. 2015/446, amended by S.I. 2021/872; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.