Acts of Parliament of the 2016-17 Session


39 Bills received Royal Assent

These Bills are enacted into law as Acts of Parliament following completion of the Bill Process.
Acts of Parliament come into effect at midnight following Royal Assent, unless a date is specified within the Act.

A Bill to make provision about the regulation of small-scale radio multiplex services; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 19th May 2016

A Bill to make provision about bus services; and for connected purposes

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 19th May 2016

A Bill to make provision about looked-after children; to make other provision in relation to the welfare of children; and to make provision about the regulation of social workers.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2015
- Private Bill

To make provision relating to the public open spaces under the management and control of the City of London Corporation; and for related purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 15th March 2018 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to amend the amount of the limit in section 15 of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 1999 on the government’s financial assistance.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 23rd February 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 13th October 2016

A Bill to amend the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002; make provision in connection with terrorist property; create corporate offences for cases where a person associated with a body corporate or partnership facilitates the commission by another person of a tax evasion offence; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 19th May 2016

A Bill to enable the United Kingdom to implement the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 1954 and the Protocols to that Convention of 1954 and 1999

This Bill received Royal Assent on 23rd February 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 5th July 2016

A Bill To make provision about electronic communications infrastructure and services; to provide for restricting access to online pornography; to make provision about protection of intellectual property in connection with electronic communications; to make provision about data-sharing; to make provision about functions of OFCOM in relation to the BBC; to provide for determination by the BBC of age-related TV licence fee concessions; to make provision about the regulation of direct marketing; to make other provision about OFCOM and its functions; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to confer power on the Prime Minister to notify, under Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the United Kingdom’s intention to withdraw from the EU.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th March 2017 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision about the constitution of the Farriers Registration Council and its committees.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2015
- Private Bill

To provide for the alteration of the objects, powers and constitution of the Faversham Oyster Fishery Company; and for other purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 14th March 2017

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 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 11th April 2016

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 15th September 2016 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision about the property and affairs of missing persons; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2015
- Private Bill

To make provision regarding the identity of the corporators of the Aske Corporation and the status of the Corporation; to remove certain restrictions on the Corporation in relation to property it holds; to make formal provision for internal procedures; and for related purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 15th September 2016 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision in connection with controlling the cost of health service medicines and other medical supplies; to make provision in connection with the provision of pricing and other information by those manufacturing, distributing or supplying those medicines and supplies, and other related products, and the disclosure of that information; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 17th December 2013

This Bill received Royal Assent on 23rd February 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 19th May 2016

A Bill to make provision about higher education and research; and to make provision about alternative payments to students in higher or further education.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision about measures for reducing homelessness; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.


The Bill was considered at and  on Tuesday 21 March 2017 and passed and will now be returned to the House of Lords without amendment and so awaits Royal Assent. A Bill to amend the law relating to unjustified threats to bring proceedings for infringement of patents, registered trade marks, rights in registered designs, design right or Community designs.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 15th March 2016

A Bill to make provision about the interception of communications, equipment interference and the acquisition and retention of communications data, bulk personal datasets and other information; to make provision about the treatment of material held as a result of such interception, equipment interference or acquisition or retention; to establish the Investigatory Powers Commissioner and other Judicial Commissioners and make provision about them and other oversight arrangements; to make further provision about investigatory powers and national security; to amend sections 3 and 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 29th November 2016 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to extend public access to certain local audit documents under section 26 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to repeal sections 146(4) and 147(3) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th November 2016
- Private Bill

A Bill to amend and update the powers of the Middle Level Commissioners to regulate navigation on the Middle Level of the Fens in the city of Peterborough and the counties of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk; to make further provision as to the regulation of navigation on those waterways; to make other provision as to the Commissioners; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 1st November 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 11th October 2016

A Bill to make provision for the national citizen service.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 7th September 2016

A Bill to make provision about planning and compulsory purchase; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th November 2015
- Private Bill

To confer powers upon New Southgate Cemetery and Crematorium Limited and the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'is of the United Kingdom to extinguish rights of burial and disturb human remains in respect of New Southgate Cemetery for the purpose of increasing the space for interments; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th November 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 20th April 2017

A Bill to extend the period of time for making Ministerial appointments following the election of the Northern Ireland Assembly on 2 March 2017, and to make provision about the regional rate in Northern Ireland for the year ending 31 March 2018.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision in relation to the procedure to be followed by local authorities when varying the charges to be paid in connection with the use of certain parking places.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.


A bill to make provision about pension schemes

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 7th March 2016

A Bill to make provision for collaboration between the emergency services; to make provision about the handling of police complaints and other matters relating to police conduct and to make further provision about the Independent Police Complaints Commission; to make provision for super-complaints about policing; to make provision for the investigation of concerns about policing raised by whistle-blowers; to make provision about police discipline; to make provision about police inspection; to make provision about the powers of police civilian staff and police volunteers; to remove the powers of the police to appoint traffic wardens; to enable provision to be made to alter police ranks; to make provision about the Police Federation; to make provision in connection with the replacement of the Association of Chief Police Officers with the National Police Chiefs’ Council; to make provision about the system for bail after arrest but before charge; to make provision to enable greater use of modern technology at police stations; to make other amendments to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; to amend the powers of the police under the Mental Health Act 1983; to extend the powers of the police in relation to maritime enforcement; to make provision about deputy police and crime commissioners; to make provision to enable changes to the names of police areas; to make provision about the regulation of firearms; to make provision about the licensing of alcohol; to make provision about the implementation and enforcement of financial sanctions; to amend the Police Act 1996 to make further provision about police collaboration; to make provision about the powers of the National Crime Agency; to make provision for requiring arrested persons to provide details of nationality; to make provision for requiring defendants in criminal proceedings to provide details of nationality and other information; to make provision to combat the sexual exploitation of children; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st January 2017 and was enacted into law.


A Bill to make provision in connection with the ratification by the United Kingdom of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention).

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 6th September 2016

A Bill to make provision for, and in connection with, government bonuses in respect of additions to savings accounts and other investment plans.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th January 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 14th September 2016

A Bill to make provision about the payment schemes established by the Small Charitable Donations Act 2012 and the Childcare Payments Act 2014.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th January 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th February 2017

A Bill to Authorise the use of resources for the years ending with 31 March 2015, 31 March 2016, 31 March 2017 and 31 March 2018; to authorise the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund for the years ending 31 March 2017 and 31 March 2018; and to appropriate the supply authorised by this Act for the years ending with 31 March 2015, 31 March 2016 and 31 March 2017.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 16th March 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 4th July 2016

A Bill To Authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2017; to authorise both the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund and the application of income for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised for that year by this Act and by the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2016.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th July 2016 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 27th October 2016

A Bill to make provision about technical and further education.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 27th April 2017 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 28th November 2016
- Private Bill

A Bill to make new provision for the making of statutes for the University of London; and for related purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 20th December 2018 and was enacted into law.

Introduced: 7th June 2016

A Bill to amend the Government of Wales Act 2006 and the Wales Act 2014 and to make provision about the functions of the Welsh Ministers and about Welsh tribunals; and for connected purposes.

This Bill received Royal Assent on 31st January 2017 and was enacted into law.