4.—(1) The Department may by regulations make such transitional and consequential provision, and such savings as it considers necessary or expedient for or in connection with the coming into operation of Article 3 or the operation of any enactment repealed or amended by that Article during any period when the repeal or amendment is not wholly in operation.
(2) Subsections (3) and (4) of section 171 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (general provisions as to regulations and orders) apply in relation to the power conferred by paragraph (1) as they apply in relation to a power conferred by that Act to make regulations.
(3) Regulations under paragraph (1), other than those to which paragraph (4) applies, shall be subject to negative resolution.
(4) This paragraph applies to regulations under paragraph (1) which are contained in a statutory rule which includes any regulations subject to the confirmatory procedure.
(5) Regulations to which paragraph (4) applies shall be subject to the confirmatory procedure.
(6) The provisions of this Order apply to the Crown, and in relation to persons employed by or under the Crown, to the same extent as the provisions amended or repealed by Article 3.
(7) In this Article “the confirmatory procedure” means the procedure described in section 172(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.