(1)Before laying before Parliament (or the Scottish Parliament or the National Assembly for Wales) a draft of a statutory instrument containing regulations under section 41, the appropriate authority must—
(a)publish draft regulations in such manner as it thinks fit, and
(b)invite representations to be made to it about the draft, during a specified period of not less than 12 weeks, by persons appearing to it to be affected by the proposals.
(2)In this section “the appropriate authority” is to be read in accordance with section 45(2).