Consultations about regulations
289.—(1) Before the Department makes any regulations by virtue of this Order (other than Part VIII), the Department must consult such persons as it considers appropriate.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply—
(a)to regulations made for the purpose only of consolidating other regulations revoked by those regulations,
(b)in a case where it appears to the Department that by reason of urgency consultation is inexpedient,
(c)to regulations made before the end of the period of six months beginning with the coming into operation of the provision of this Order by virtue of which the regulations are made,
(d)to regulations which—
(i)state that they only make provision consequential upon a specified statutory provision, and
(ii)are made before the end of the period of six months beginning with the coming into operation of that statutory provision, or
(e)to regulations making only provision corresponding to provision contained in regulations made by the Secretary of State in relation to Great Britain.