Legislation brought by British, bad old folk not looking good (4,2,6)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

B ILL O FRIGHTS (people not looking good; by analogy with ‘Ooh! He looked a real fright, Mavis!’ you could have ‘Ooh! They looked real frights, Colin!’ Okay, doesn’t quite have the same ring, but this is Crosswordland.)