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(1)Any power conferred on the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers to make regulations under this Act is exercisable by statutory instrument.
(2)A power conferred on DAERA to make regulations under this Act is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12)).
(3)Any power to make regulations under this Act includes power—
(a)to modify retained direct EU legislation;
(b)to make provision binding the Crown;
(c)to make different provision for different purposes;
(d)to make supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision.
(4)The provision which may be made by virtue of subsection (3)(d) includes provision modifying primary legislation, retained direct EU legislation or subordinate legislation.
(5)Regulations which—
(a)contain provision made by virtue of subsection (3)(d) modifying primary legislation, and
(b)would, apart from this subsection, be subject to negative resolution procedure,
are subject to affirmative resolution procedure.
(6)Where regulations under this Act are subject to affirmative resolution procedure, the regulations—
(a)if made by the Secretary of State, may not be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing them has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament;
(b)if made by the Scottish Ministers, are subject to the affirmative procedure (see section 29 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10));
(c)if made by the Welsh Ministers, may not be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing them has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, Senedd Cymru;
(d)if made by DAERA, may not be made unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(7)Where regulations under this Act are subject to negative resolution procedure—
(a)if made by the Secretary of State, the statutory instrument containing them is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament;
(b)if made by the Scottish Ministers, the regulations are subject to the negative procedure (see section 28 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10));
(c)if made by the Welsh Ministers, the statutory instrument containing them is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of Senedd Cymru;
(d)if made by DAERA, the regulations are subject to negative resolution within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.
(8)Any provision that may be made by regulations under this Act subject to negative resolution procedure may be made in regulations subject to affirmative resolution procedure.
(9)Section 41(3) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies in relation to the laying of a document before the Northern Ireland Assembly by virtue of this section as it applies in relation to the laying of a statutory document under an enactment (as defined in that Act).
(10)This section does not apply to regulations under section 57.
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