Acts of Parliament of the 2012-13 Session


52 Bills Alphabetically (A-Z)


A Bill to make provision consequential on Annex VI to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty; to amend the Antarctic Act 1994; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2007
- Private Bill

There will be no further opportunity to petition against the Bill in Parliament.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th February 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 4th February 2013

This Bill received Royal Assent on 13th March 2014 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 29th November 2010
- Private Bill

This Bill received Royal Assent on 18th December 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 30th January 2012

To make provision about the regulation of operators of dominant airports; to confer functions on the Civil Aviation Authority under competition legislation in relation to services provided at airports; to make provision about aviation security; to make provision about the regulation of provision of flight accommodation; to make further provision about the Civil Aviation Authority’s membership, administration and functions in relation to enforcement, regulatory burdens and the provision of information relating to aviation; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th December 2012 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 10th May 2012

A Bill to establish, and make provision about, the National Crime Agency; to abolish the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Policing Improvement Agency; to make provision about the judiciary and the structure, administration, proceedings and powers of courts and tribunals; to make provision about border control; to make provision about drugs and driving; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 10th May 2012

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.


This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st January 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 10th May 2012

To make provision about the registration of electors and the administration and conduct of elections.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st January 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 29th November 2012

To make provision for or in connection with reforming the electricity market for purposes of encouraging low carbon electricity generation or ensuring security of supply; for the establishment and functions of the Office for Nuclear Regulation; about the government pipe-line and storage system and rights exercisable in relation to it; about the designation of a strategy and policy statement; for the making of orders requiring regulated persons to provide redress to consumers of gas or electricity; about offshore transmission of electricity during a commissioning period; for imposing further fees in respect of nuclear decommissioning costs; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 18th December 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 23rd May 2012

A Bill to make provision about the UK Green Investment Bank; to make provision about employment law; to establish and make provision about the Competition and Markets Authority and to abolish the Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading; to amend the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002; to make provision for the reduction of legislative burdens; to make provision about copyright and rights in performances; to make provision about payments to company directors; and for connected purposes

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.


This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st October 2012 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 26th November 2012

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th February 2013 and was enacted into law.


To make provision consequential on the treaty concerning the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union, signed at Brussels on 9 December 2011, and provision consequential on the Protocol on the concerns of the Irish people on the Treaty of Lisbon, adopted at Brussels on 16 May 2012; and to make provision about the entitlement of nationals of the Republic of Croatia to enter or reside in the United Kingdom as workers.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st January 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 16th April 2012

To grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th July 2012 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 25th March 2013

A Bill To grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th July 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 11th March 2013

To make further provision about banking and other financial services, including provision about the Financial Services Compensation Scheme; to make provision for the amounts owed in respect of certain deposits to be treated as a preferential debt on insolvency; to make provision about the accounts of the Bank of England and its wholly owned subsidiaries; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 18th December 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 6th February 2012

A Bill To amend the Bank of England Act 1998, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and the Banking Act 2009; to make other provision about financial services and markets; to make provision about the exercise of certain statutory functions relating to building societies, friendly societies and other mutual societies; to amend section 785 of the Companies Act 2006; to make provision enabling the Director of Savings to provide services to other public bodies; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th December 2012 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 10th May 2012

A bill to set up a Groceries Code Adjudicator with the role of enforcing the Groceries Code and encouraging compliance with it.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 18th October 2012

Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill it received Royal Assent on 25 April. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament (law). To make provision in connection with facilitating or controlling the following, namely, the provision or use of infrastructure, the carrying-out of development, and the compulsory acquisition of land; to make provision about when rating lists are to be compiled; to make provision about the rights of employees of companies who agree to be employee owners; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2012
- Private Bill

A Bill to confer powers on Hertfordshire County Council in relation to filming on highways; and for related purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 30th January 2014 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 23rd October 2012

Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill it received Royal Assent on 28 February. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament (law). A Bill to make provision charging a levy in respect of the use or keeping of heavy goods vehicles on public roads in the United Kingdom, and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th February 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2012
- Private Bill

A Bill to amend the constitution of the Humber Bridge Board and to confer new borrowing and other powers on it; to make new provision for the recovery of any deficit of the Board from local authorities in the area; to confer new powers for the setting and revision of tolls and to make other provision for and in connection with the operation of the bridge; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 18th December 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 5th September 2012

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st October 2012 and was enacted into law.


To make provision about the effect of certain provisions relating to participation in a scheme designed to assist persons to obtain employment and about notices relating to participation in such a scheme.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th May 2012

A bill to provide for oversight of the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service, the Government Communications Headquarters and other activities relating to intelligence or security matters; to provide for closed material procedure in relation to certain civil proceedings; to prevent the making of certain court orders for the disclosure of sensitive information; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2007
- Private Bill

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th February 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 10th January 2012

A Bill to make provision about non-domestic rating; to make provision about grants to local authorities; to make provision about council tax; to make provision about the supply of information for purposes relating to rates in Northern Ireland; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st October 2012 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2007
- Private Bill

The Bill (as originally introduced) empowers London boroughs and Transport for London (TfL) to:

This Bill received Royal Assent on 18th December 2013 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision in relation to marine navigation and harbours.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 5th February 2013

A Bill to make provision for the marriage of same sex couples in England and Wales, about gender change by married persons and civil partners, about consular functions in relation to marriage, for the marriage of armed forces personnel overseas, for permitting marriages according to the usages of belief organisations to be solemnized on the authority of certificates of a superintendent registrar, for the review of civil partnership, for the review of survivor benefits under occupational pension schemes, and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th July 2013 and was enacted into law.


Authorise things done before the day on which this Act is passed in the purported exercise of functions relating to the approval of registered medical practitioners and clinicians under the Mental Health Act 1983.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st October 2012 and was enacted into law.


This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th February 2013 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to amend the law relating to mobile homes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2007
- Private Bill

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th February 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 5th November 2012

A Bill to make provision for the prosecution in Scotland of partnerships, partners and others following dissolution or changes in membership.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 22nd November 2012

Make provision about interviews held during certain investigations under Schedule 3 to the Police Reform Act 2002; and about the application of Part 2 of that Act to matters occurring before 1 April 2004.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th December 2012 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision in relation to the presumed death of missing persons; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2013 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to create offences and make other provision relating to sub-letting and parting with possession of social housing; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st January 2013 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision about interference with wireless telegraphy in prisons and similar institutions.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th December 2012 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision for the destruction of certain property found in prisons and similar institutions.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th February 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 13th September 2012

To make provision for public service pension schemes; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2007
- Private Bill

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th February 2013 and was enacted into law.


Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill it received Royal Assent on 28 February. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament (law). A Bill to amend the law relating to scrap metal dealers; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 28th February 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 21st June 2012

Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill it received Royal Assent on 19 December. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament (law).

This Bill received Royal Assent on 19th December 2012 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 10th October 2012

A Bill to promote the reform of the statute law by the repeal, in accordance with recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission, of certain enactments which (except in so far as their effect is preserved) are no longer of practical utility.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st January 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 13th December 2012

Following agreement by both Houses on the text of the Bill it received Royal Assent on 25 April. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament (law). To make succession to the Crown not depend on gender; to make provision about Royal Marriages; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 25th April 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 6th March 2013

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2013 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 4th July 2012

This Bill received Royal Assent on 17th July 2012 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 29th November 2010
- Private Bill

This Bill received Royal Assent on 4th May 2016 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 25th April 2012

A Bill to amend the law relating to capital and income in trusts.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st January 2013 and was enacted into law.


To make provision relating to the up-rating of certain social security benefits and tax credits.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2013 and was enacted into law.