Housing and Planning Act 2016

214 Regulations: general U.K.

(1) Regulations under this Act are to be made by statutory instrument.

(2) A statutory instrument containing—

(a) regulations under section 2, 3(6), 4 or 5,

(b) regulations under section 14,

(c) regulations under section 69(8),

(d) regulations under section 74(9),

(e) the first regulations under section 80,

(f) regulations under section 85 that amend or repeal a provision of an Act,

(g) regulations under section 93,

(h) regulations under section 102 or paragraph 45 of Schedule 5,

(i) regulations under section 122,

(j) regulations under section 133, 134, or 135,

(k) regulations under section 154(1),

(l) regulations under section 161 that make provision of the kind referred to in section 161(3), (5), (6) or (12)(b), section 163 or section 164,

(m) regulations under section 205(2),

(n) regulations under section 213 that amend or repeal a provision of an Act, or

(o) regulations under paragraph 8 of Schedule 15 that amend or repeal a provision of an Act,

(whether alone or together with other provision) may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(3) Any other statutory instrument containing regulations under this Act is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply to a statutory instrument that only contains regulations under section 212 or 216.

(5) If a draft of regulations under section 69(8), 154 or 161 would, apart from this subsection, be treated as a hybrid instrument for the purposes of the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament, it is to proceed in that House as if it were not a hybrid instrument.

(6) Regulations under this Act may make—

(a) consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional or saving provision;

(b) different provision for different purposes.