PART 5Digital government

CHAPTER 3Debt owed to the public sector

54Regulations under this Chapter

1

Any power to make regulations under this Chapter is exercisable—

a

in the case of regulations made by the relevant Minister or the Welsh Ministers, by statutory instrument, and

b

in the case of regulations made by the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland, by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (SI 1979/1573 (NI 12)).

2

Regulations under this Chapter—

a

may make different provision for different purposes;

b

may contain consequential, supplementary, transitional or transitory provision or savings.

3

In the case of regulations under section 48(5) which amend Schedule 7 so as to add an entry relating to a person or description of person, this includes power to make provision in relation to information disclosed by that person or a person of that description which is similar to that made by section 51 in relation to information disclosed by the Revenue and Customs.

4

A statutory instrument containing regulations made under this Chapter by the relevant Minister may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

5

Regulations made under section 48(5) by the Scottish Ministers are subject to the affirmative procedure.

6

A statutory instrument containing regulations made under section 48(5) by the Welsh Ministers may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the National Assembly for Wales.

7

Regulations under section 48(5) may not be made by the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Northern Ireland Assembly.

8

If a draft of a statutory instrument containing regulations under section 48(5) would, apart from this subsection, be treated for the purposes of the standing orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument, it is to proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument.