Part 4General and final provisions

General

89Orders

(1)

Any power of the Secretary of State, the Treasury or the Scottish Ministers to make an order under this Act is exercisable by statutory instrument.

(2)

Any power of the Secretary of State or the Treasury to make an order under this Act—

(a)

may be exercised so as to make different provision for different cases or descriptions of case or different purposes;

(b)

includes power to make such supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as the Secretary of State or (as the case may be) the Treasury considers appropriate.

(3)

No order is to be made F1 by statutory instrument under section 4(4), 49(6), 63(3), 69 or 90, or paragraph 102 of Schedule 8, unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

(4)

Subsection (3) does not apply to an order under section 90 which does not amend or repeal any provision of an Act.

(5)

An order under section 90 which does not amend or repeal any provision of an Act is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(6)

An order F2 made by statutory instrument under F3section 7(1), 24(9), 27(6) or (12), 28(6) F4..., 29, 33, 40, 68 or 85 is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

F5(7)

Any power of the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland to make an order under this Act is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979.

(8)

Any power of the Department of Justice to make an order under this Act—

(a)

may be exercised so as to make different provision for different cases or descriptions of case or different purposes;

(b)

includes power to make such supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as the Department considers appropriate.

(9)

No order is to be made by the Department of Justice under section 4(5), 49(6) or 63(4) unless a draft of it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(10)

Section 41(3) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies for the purposes of subsection (9) in relation to the laying of a draft as it applies in relation to the laying of a statutory document under an enactment.

(11)

An order made by the Department of Justice under section 7(2), 24(9), 28(6) or (11), 29 or 40 is subject to negative resolution (within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954).