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Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020

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6Consequential and transitional provision

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(1)The Secretary of State or the relevant national authority may by regulations make such provision as the Secretary of State or relevant national authority considers appropriate in consequence of this Act.

(2)The power to make regulations under subsection (1) may (among other things) be exercised by modifying any provision made by or under an enactment.

(3)Schedule 1 contains consequential provision.

(4)The Secretary of State or the relevant national authority may by regulations make such transitional, transitory or saving provision as the Secretary of State or relevant national authority considers appropriate in connection with the coming into force of any provision of this Act.

(5)But the Secretary of State may only make regulations under this section that apply (whether or not the regulations also apply in relation to England)—

(a)in or as regards Scotland,

(b)in or in relation to Wales,

(c)in or as regards Northern Ireland,

if the Secretary of State has obtained the required consent.

(6)For the purposes of subsection (5), the “required consent” is—

(a)the consent of the Scottish Ministers, if the regulations apply in or as regards Scotland,

(b)the consent of the Welsh Ministers, if the regulations apply in or in relation to Wales, and

(c)the consent of DAERA, if the regulations apply in or as regards Northern Ireland.

(7)In this section, “the relevant national authority” is—

(a)the Scottish Ministers, for regulations that apply only in or as regards Scotland,

(b)the Welsh Ministers, for regulations that apply only in or in relation to Wales, and

(c)DAERA, for regulations that apply only in or as regards Northern Ireland.

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