Infrastructure Act 2015
Act of ParliamentThis bill passed all stages in both Houses and received Royal Assent.
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Long title
A Bill to make provision for strategic highways companies and the funding of transport services by land; to make provision for the control of invasive non-native species; to make provision about nationally significant infrastructure projects; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision about the Homes and Communities Agency and Mayoral development corporations; to make provision about the Greater London Authority so far as it exercises functions for the purposes of housing and regeneration; to make provision about Her Majesty’s Land Registry and local land charges; to make provision enabling building regulations to provide for off-site carbon abatement measures; to make provision for giving members of communities the right to buy stakes in local renewable electricity generation facilities; to make provision about maximising economic recovery of petroleum in the United Kingdom; to provide for a levy to be charged on holders of certain energy licences; to enable Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to exercise functions in connection with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative; to make provision about onshore petroleum and geothermal energy; to make provision about renewable heat incentives; and for connected purposes.
Progress through Parliament
- 1st reading· Lords
5 June 2014 – 5 June 2014
- 2nd reading· Lords
18 June 2014 – 18 June 2014
- Committee stage· Lords
3 July 2014 – 14 October 2014
- Report stage· Lords
3 November 2014 – 10 November 2014
- 3rd reading· Lords
19 November 2014 – 19 November 2014
- 1st reading· Commons
20 November 2014 – 20 November 2014
- 2nd reading· Commons
8 December 2014 – 8 December 2014
- Programme motion· Commons
8 December 2014 – 8 December 2014
- Money resolution· Commons
8 December 2014 – 8 December 2014
- Ways and Means resolution· Commons
8 December 2014 – 8 December 2014
- Committee stage· Commons
16 December 2014 – 15 January 2015
- Programme motion· Commons
26 January 2015 – 26 January 2015
- Report stage· Commons
26 January 2015 – 26 January 2015
- 3rd reading· Commons
26 January 2015 – 26 January 2015
- Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons· Lords
9 February 2015 – 9 February 2015
- Programme motion· Commons
11 February 2015 – 11 February 2015
- Consideration of Lords amendments· Commons
11 February 2015 – 11 February 2015
- Royal Assent· Unassigned
12 February 2015 – 12 February 2015
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. Bill ID: 1377.