Finance (No. 2) Act 2023

263 Regulations

(1) A power to make regulations under this Part includes a power to make consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional or saving provision.

(2) Regulations under this Part are to be made by statutory instrument.

(3) A statutory instrument containing (whether alone or with other provision) regulations made under section 262(1)(b) is subject to the made affirmative procedure.

(4) Otherwise, a statutory instrument containing regulations under this Part is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.

(5) Where a statutory instrument is subject to “the made affirmative procedure”—

(a) it must be laid before the House of Commons after being made, and

(b) it ceases to have effect at the end of the period of 28 sitting days beginning with the day on which the instrument is made, unless within that period the instrument is approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.

(6) Where regulations cease to have effect as a result of subsection (5), that does not—

(a) affect anything previously done under the regulations, or

(b) prevent the making of new regulations.

(7) In this section, “sitting day” means a day on which the House of Commons is sitting (and a day is only a day on which the House of Commons is sitting if the House begins to sit on that day).