Question follow-through · 20417
Retrospective Legislation
To ask the Attorney General, whether the Government Legal Service has a policy on when retrospective legislation is justified.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Attorney General's Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Attorney General, whether the Government Legal Service has a policy on when retrospective legislation is justified.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
As set out in the Guide to Making Legislation, where a department proposes to include a provision that would be retrospective (whether formally retrospective or with retrospective effect), they must first seek the consent of the Law Officers.Each case is ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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