68Subordinate legislation
(1)Any power conferred by this Act on the Scottish Ministers to make an order or regulations includes the power to make—
(a)different provision for different cases or descriptions of case or for different purposes,
(b)such incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as the Scottish Ministers consider necessary or expedient.
(2)Orders and regulations under the following provisions are subject to the affirmative procedure—
(a)section 5(4),
(b)section 24(1) (but only the first order),
(c)section 27(3),
(d)section 49(2),
(e)section 50(2),
(f)section 52(2),
(g)section 53(1),
(h)section 54(2),
(i)section 59(9),
(j)paragraph 8 of schedule 1,
(k)paragraph 3 of schedule 19 (but only the first order),
(l)paragraph 7(1) of that schedule.
(3)Orders and regulations under the following provisions which add to, replace or omit the text of any Act (including this Act) are also subject to the affirmative procedure—
(a)section 17(2),
(b)section 47(1),
(c)section 56(1),
(d)section 67(1).
(4)An order mentioned in subsection (5)—
(a)must be laid before the Scottish Parliament, and
(b)ceases to have effect on the expiry of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which it is made unless, before the expiry of that period, it is approved by resolution of the Parliament.
(5)The order is a second or subsequent order under—
(a)section 24(1), or
(b)paragraph 3 of schedule 19.
(6)In reckoning any period of 28 days for the purposes of subsection (4)(b), no account is to be taken of any period during which the Scottish Parliament is—
(a)dissolved, or
(b)in recess for more than 4 days.
(7)All other orders and regulations under this Act are subject to the negative procedure.
(8)This section does not apply to an order under section 70(2).