Social Security Act 1973

97 Parliamentary control of orders and regulations.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no regulations shall be made wholly or partly by virtue of any of the following provisions of this Act, namely section 3(4), 5(9), 14(4), 41 or 42, and no order shall be made wholly or partly by virtue of section 12(3), unless a draft of the regulations or order has been laid before Parliament and been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

(2) Subsection (1) above shall not apply in the case of—

(a) regulations under section 41 of this Act, where the instrument containing the regulations states that the regulations are made for the purpose of making provision consequential upon the making of an order under section 7 or 8 of this Act;

(b) regulations to be made for the purpose only of consolidating regulations thereby revoked;

(c) regulations which, in so far as they are made under the powers conferred by the provisions mentioned in subsection (1) above, only replace provisions of previous regulations with new provisions to the same effect;

(d) regulations or orders made by the Northern Ireland Ministry.

(3) All regulations made under this Act or Part IV of the former principal Act by the Secretary of State or the Joint Authority, other than regulations to which subsection (1) above applies, and all orders so made by the Secretary of State, except an order under section 7, 8, 12(3), 39 or 101, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4) In the case of any regulations laid before Parliament at a time when Parliament is not sitting, the requirements of section 48(3) or 68(2) of this Act shall be deemed to be satisfied as respects either House of Parliament if a copy of the report and the statement referred to in the relevant subsection are laid before that House not later than the second day on which the House sits after the laying of the regulations.