Part XII Supplementary Provisions

Consequential and transitional provision etc.

406 Transitional and consequential provision.

(1)

A Minister of the Crown may by order make such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provision as appears to him to be necessary or expedient—

(a)

for the general purposes, or any particular purposes, of this Act;

(b)

in consequence of, or otherwise in connection with, any provision made by or under this Act;

(c)

for giving full effect to this Act; or

(d)

in consequence of such of the provisions of any other Act passed—

(i)

before the relevant day, within the meaning of section 405 above, or

(ii)

in the Session in which that day falls,

as apply to any area, or any body or person, affected by this Act.

(2)

The provision that may be made by an order under this section includes provision—

(a)

for requiring or enabling any body or person by whom any powers will, on a date specified by or under this Act, become exercisable by virtue of any provision made by or under this Act to take before that date any steps which are necessary or expedient as a preliminary to the exercise of those powers;

(b)

for the making, before any date specified by or under this Act, of arrangements for securing the satisfactory operation on or after that date of any provision made by or under this Act and for defraying the cost of any such arrangements;

(c)

for authorising or requiring the exercise by or in relation to any body or person before a date specified by or under this Act, and whether with or without modifications, of any functions under or by virtue of this Act which will become exercisable on or after that date by or in relation to other bodies or persons, and for defraying any costs incurred in connection with any such exercise;

(d)

for requiring any body or person by whom any powers are exercisable before a date specified by or under this Act to refrain from exercising those powers on or after that date or to refrain from exercising them as respects a period beginning on or after that date.