12.— (1) Subject to subsection (3), a committee which proposes to conduct a Part 2 inquiry shall, in accordance with the rules and standing orders made by the House pursuant to subsection (2), give a notice in writing of the proposal for the inquiry (in this section referred to as the “relevant proposal”) to an individual or committee designated for the purposes of this subsection by those rules and standing orders.

(2) Each House shall make rules and standing orders in relation to designating a person (in this section referred to as the “designated person”) for the purposes of subsection (1) and may make rules and standing orders in relation to any of the following:

(a) specifying the matters to be contained in the relevant proposal;

(b) requiring the designated person to examine the relevant proposal and prepare a report on the relevant proposal (in this section referred to as the “relevant report”);

(c) specifying the matters to be contained in the relevant report;

(d) specifying the procedures to be applied in the preparation of the relevant report;

(e) requiring a person (which may be the designated person) to consider the relevant report and make recommendations to the House in respect of such matters relating to the relevant report as are specified in the rules and standing orders, including, in particular, whether the proposed Part 2 inquiry the subject of the report should be held and, if so, by which committee and in what manner;

(f) making such other provision for the purposes of this section as the House considers appropriate.

(3) The House shall make the rules and standing orders referred to in subsection (1) not later than 50 sitting days after the commencement of this section.

(4) The House to which the relevant report (if any) is given shall consider the report and the recommendations (if any) referred to in subsection (2)(e) before it passes or declines to pass a resolution referred to in section 13(1) in respect of the proposed Part 2 inquiry the subject of the report.