He would not be against a change to the law to put new regulations on a statutory footing with compulsory adjudication.

This was put onto a statutory footing by the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.

But we have decided to put the matter beyond speculation by placing this principle on a statutory footing.

The Bill should also put an element of the associated 'authorisation to disclose' procedure onto a statutory footing and increase penalties.

Nevertheless, Harding says, there must be an independent regulator that does not have a statutory footing, because journalists cannot be trusted to "mark their own homework".

This bill put the House of Lords Appointments Commission on a statutory footing.

Since the Courts Act of 1971, the system has been put on a statutory footing and some new positions have been created (for example, Redbridge).

It did not, however, place declaration of war and the deployment of armed forces on a statutory footing, as was intended when the bill came to Parliament.

It was then formally created by the new government after the general election in May 2010, before being put on a statutory footing by this Act.

The arrangement was put on a statutory footing with the enactment of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.