100B Code of practice: consultation and procedural requirements 

(1) The Commission must consult the following on a draft of a code undersection 100A—

(a) the Speaker’s Committee;
(b) the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee;
(c) such other persons as the Commission consider appropriate.

(2) After the Commission have carried out the consultation required bysubsection (1), they must—

(a) make whatever modifications to the draft code the Commissionconsider necessary in light of responses to the consultation, and
(b) submit the draft to the Secretary of State for approval by the Secretaryof State.

(3) The Secretary of State may approve a draft code either without modificationsor with such modifications as the Secretary of State may determine.
(4) Once the Secretary of State has approved a draft code, the Secretary of Statemust lay before each House of Parliament a copy of the draft, whether—

(a) in its original form, or
(b) in a form which incorporates any modifications determined undersubsection (3).

(5) If the draft code incorporates any such modifications, the Secretary of Statemust at the same time lay before each House a statement of the Secretary ofState’s reasons for making them.
(6) If, within the 40-day period, either House resolves not to approve the draft,the Secretary of State must take no further steps in relation to the draft code.
(7) Subsection (6) does not prevent a new draft code from being laid beforeParliament.
(8) If no resolution of the kind mentioned in subsection (6) is made within the40-day period—

(a) the Secretary of State must issue the code in the form of the draft laidbefore Parliament,
(b) the Commission must arrange for the code to be published in suchmanner as they consider appropriate, and
(c) the code comes into force on such day as the Secretary of State mayby order appoint.

(9) References in this section (other than in subsection (1)) to a code or draft codeinclude a revised code or draft revised code.
(10) In this section, “the 40-day period”, in relation to a draft code, means—

(a) if the draft is laid before one House on a day later than the dayon which it is laid before the other House, the period of 40 daysbeginning with the later of the two days, and
(b) in any other case, the period of 40 days beginning with the day onwhich the draft is laid before each House, no account being takenof any period during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued orduring which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.

(11) If the name of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee ischanged, the reference in subsection (1)(b) to that Committee is to be read(subject to subsection (12)) as a reference to the Committee by its new name.
(12) If the functions of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committeeat the passing of this Act with respect to electoral matters (or functionscorresponding substantially to such matters) become functions of a differentcommittee of the House of Commons, the reference in subsection (1)(b) tothat Committee is to be read as a reference to the committee which for thetime being has those functions.”
(2) In section 156 of PPERA (orders and regulations), in subsection (3), beforeparagraph (a) insert—

“(za) an order under section 100B(8);”

(3) In Schedule 8A to PPERA (controlled expenditure: qualifying expenses), in paragraph3, after sub-paragraph (10) insert—

“(11) This paragraph does not apply in relation to expenses incurred during aperiod in relation to which any limit is imposed by paragraph 3, 7, 9, 10or 11 of Schedule 10 (regulated periods for parliamentary general electionsor general elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly) (see sections 100Aand 100B as regards expenses incurred during such a period).”