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(1)The Secretary of State may at any time prepare and publish a replacement SSFS or amendments of an SSFS.
(2)Part 2 of Schedule 1 contains provision applying in relation to the preparation and publication by the Secretary of State of an SSFS or amendments of an SSFS.
(3)An SSFS or an amendment of an SSFS comes into effect when it is published in accordance with that Part of that Schedule.
(4)The Secretary of State must review an SSFS whenever the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to do so and in any event—
(a)before the end of the period of 6 years beginning with the day on which it was published, and
(b)in the case of an SSFS that has already been reviewed, before the end of the period of 6 years beginning with the end of the most recent review.
(5)If, in the light of a review, the Secretary of State concludes that changes are required to the SSFS the Secretary of State must—
(a)prepare and publish amendments of the SSFS, or
(b)prepare and publish a replacement SSFS.
(6)For the purposes of this section, a review of an SSFS ends—
(a)if the Secretary of State concludes in the light of the review that no changes are required to the SSFS, at the time the Secretary of State reaches that conclusion;
(b)if the Secretary of State concludes in the light of the review that changes are required to the SSFS, at the time the document mentioned in subsection (5) is published.
(7)Where, at any time after an SSFS has come into effect, a replacement JFS comes into effect or amendments of a JFS come into effect, and—
(a)the policies in the SSFS are included in the new JFS, or
(b)the Secretary of State considers that the policies in the SSFS are superseded by the policies in the new JFS,
the Secretary of State may publish a document revoking the SSFS.
(8)In subsection (7) “the new JFS” means the replacement JFS or the JFS as amended.
(9)The revocation comes into effect when the document is published.
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