177Orders and regulations (general provisions)
(1)Any power under this Act to make regulations or orders (except a power of the Board or the court to make orders and regulations made by the Secretary of State under section 160) and the powers to make rules under sections 145(2) and 148(1) shall be exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the [S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12).] Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979.
(2)Where a power conferred by this Act is expressed to be exercisable for alternative purposes it may be exercised in relation to the same case for any or all of those purposes.
(3)Any power to make regulations or an order for the purposes of any one provision of this Act shall be without prejudice to any power to make regulations or an order for the purposes of any other provision.
(4)Any power conferred by this Act to make regulations or an order shall include power to make such incidental, supplementary, consequential or transitional provision as appears to the authority making the regulations or order to be expedient for the purposes of the regulations or order.
(5)Subsection (4) has effect—
(a)in its application to regulations and orders made under the following provisions, namely Chapter I of Part IV, Part VIII so far as it applies for the purposes of Chapter I of Part IV, sections 132 to 134, 135(2) and (3), 136, 137, 138(1) to (4), 139, 149(2), 154(1) to (5), 158, 159, 167, 168 and 171, with the omission of the words “consequential or transitional”; and
(b)in its application to orders made under section 149(8), with the omission of the word “consequential”.
(6)Any power conferred on the Department by this Act to make any regulations or order (except an order under section 149(8)), where the power is not expressed to be exercisable with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel, shall if that Department so directs be exercisable only in conjunction with it.
(7)The power conferred on the Secretary of State by section 160 to make regulations is exercisable by statutory instrument; and subsections (2) to (4) and section 178(1) apply to those regulations as they apply to regulations made by the Department.
(8)The power conferred on the Secretary of State by section 160 to make regulations shall if the Treasury so direct be exercisable only in conjunction with them.