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Wages Act 1986

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25Regulations and orders made by Secretary of State under Part II

(1)The Secretary of State may make regulations for prescribing anything which by this Part is authorised or required to be prescribed.

(2)Any power to make an order or regulations conferred on the Secretary of State by this Part shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

(3)A statutory instrument containing—

(a)an order made by the Secretary of State under section 13 (other than an order to which subsection (4) below applies) or under section 24(4), or

(b)any regulations made by him under this Part,

shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4)No order to which this subsection applies shall be made by the Secretary of State unless a draft of the order has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(5)Subsection (4) applies to an order under section 13 which—

(a)abolishes a wages council, and

(b)does not direct that all or any of the workers previously within the scope of operation of that wages council shall be brought within the scope of operation of another wages council.

(6)A draft of such an order which would, apart from the provisions of this subsection, be treated for the purposes of the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument shall proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument.

(7)Any power conferred by this Part to prescribe the manner in which anything is to be published shall include power to prescribe the date which is to be taken for the purposes of this Part as the date of publication.

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