Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014

PART 8 Final provisions

General and ancillary

79 Regulation-making

(1) Regulations under the preceding Parts of this Act may—

(a) make different provision for different purposes,

(b) include supplemental, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision.

(2) Regulations under the following provisions of those Parts are subject to the affirmative procedure—

(a) section 20(2) or 23(2),

(b) section 27(2) or 28(2),

(c) section 38(1), 40(1) or 41(1),

(d) section 65(1), 66(1) or 67(1).

(3) Regulations under any other provisions of those Parts are subject to the negative procedure.

80 Ancillary regulations

(1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make such supplemental, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as they consider necessary or expedient for the purposes of or in connection with this Act.

(2) Regulations under this section—

(a) are subject to the affirmative procedure if they add to, replace or omit any part of the text of an Act (including this Act),

(b) otherwise, are subject to the negative procedure.

81 Transitional and consequential

For the purposes of or in connection with this Act, schedule 9 contains—

(a) transitional and other provision,

(b) modification of enactments.

Interpretation, commencement and short title

82 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, “Lord President” means Lord President of the Court of Session.

(2) Schedule 10 is an index of expressions used in this Act together with a note of some key provisions.

83 Commencement

(1) Section 82, this section and section 84 come into force on the day after Royal Assent.

(2) The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by order appoint.

(3) An order under subsection (2) may include transitional, transitory or saving provision.

84 Short title

The short title of this Act is the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014.