Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000

156 Orders and regulations. U.K.

(1) Any power of the Secretary of State to make any order or regulations under this Act shall be exercised by statutory instrument.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a statutory instrument containing any order or regulations made under this Act by the Secretary of State shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to—

(a) any order under section 16(3) or 163(2) or paragraph 14(7) of Schedule 1; or

(b) any order made in pursuance of section 155(2)(a).

(4) Subsection (2) also does not apply to any order under—

(a) section 18(1),

(b) section 51(4),

(c) section 67(1),

(d) section 70(1),

(e) section 101(4),

(f) section 108(3),

(g) section 109(6),

(h) section 129,

(i) paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 7,

(j) paragraph 4 of Schedule 8,

(k) paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 11,

(l) paragraph 4 of Schedule 13,

(m) paragraph 2 of Schedule 14, or

(n) paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 15;

and no such order shall be made (whether alone or with other provisions) unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

(5) Any order or regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Act may—

(a) contain such consequential, incidental, supplementary or transitional provisions or savings (including provisions amending, repealing or revoking enactments) as the Secretary of State considers appropriate; and

(b) make different provision for different cases.

(6) Nothing in this Act shall be read as affecting the generality of subsection (5) (including that subsection as applied by section 19(9)).

(7) Paragraphs 21 to 23 of Schedule 1 contain provisions relating to regulations made by the Commission.