Part III General

32 Orders and regulations.

1

Any power conferred by any provision of this Act to make an order or regulations shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

2

Subject to subsection (3) below, any statutory instrument made under any power conferred by this Act shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.

3

A statutory instrument containing an order under section 13(4) or 14(3) above shall be laid before the House of Commons after being made and the order shall cease to have effect at the end of twenty-eight days after the day on which it was made (but without prejudice to anything previously done under the order or to the making of a new order) unless at some time before the end of those twenty-eight days the order is approved by resolution of that House; and, in reckoning for the purposes of this subsection any period of twenty-eight days, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.