Statutory instruments being approved by Parliament can go through two procedures: the affirmative resolution procedure and the negative resolution procedure.

Tips on finding out what procedure the SI comes under:

check the enabling Act, this will often say somewhere what procedure regulations made under the Act will go through.
check the Votes and Proceedings pages of Parliament
Try the House of Commons List of Statutory Instruments

See further: Parliament Factsheet on Statutory Instruments (pdf)

A note on the annotations to SIs such as L and C:

(C n) in statutory instruments denotes a commencement order e.g. The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2011, SI 2011 No 1122 (C. 46)

(L n) in a statutory instrument means those covering fees or procedures in courts e.g. The Family Procedure (Modification of Enactments) Order 2011, SI 2011 No 1045 (L. 8)

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