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Part 4General

64Ancillary provision

(1)The Scottish Ministers may by order make such incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitory, transitional or saving provision as they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in consequence of or for giving full effect to this Act or any provision of it.

(2)An order under subsection (1) may modify any enactment (including this Act), instrument or document.

65Rules, regulations and orders

(1)The powers conferred by this Act on the Scottish Ministers to make rules, regulations and orders are exercisable by statutory instrument.

(2)Each of those powers includes power to make—

(a)different provision for different purposes,

(b)supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitory, transitional or saving provision.

(3)Subject to subsection (4), a statutory instrument containing rules, regulations or an order under this Act (other than an order under section 67) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

(4)A statutory instrument containing—

(a)an order under section 4(2), 7, 47(1)(b) or 57(1) or paragraph 6 of schedule 3,

(b)an order under section 64(1) which contains provision modifying an Act, or

(c)regulations under paragraph 3(1) or 17 of schedule 1,

may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.

66Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

(1)Schedule 4 (which contains minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act) has effect.

(2)The enactments mentioned in the first column in schedule 5 are repealed to the extent set out in the second column.

(3)Schedule 6 (which contains certain transitory amendments of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993) has effect.

67Short title and commencement

(1)This Act may be cited as the Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007.

(2)This Act (other than this section and section 65) shall come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by order appoint.

(3)Different days may be appointed under subsection (2) for different purposes.