Copyright Act 1956

47 General provisions as to Orders in Council, regulations, rules and orders, and as to Board of Trade

(1) Any power to make regulations, rules or orders under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

(2) Any statutory instrument containing—

(a) any Order in Council or regulations made under this Act, or

(b) any rules made by the Lord Chancellor under the Fourth Schedule to this Act,

shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(3) Any Order in Council, or other order, made under any of the preceding provisions of this Act may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order in Council or order made thereunder.

(4) Where a power to make regulations or rules is conferred by any provision of this Act, regulations or rules under that power may be made either as respects all, or as respects any one or more, of the matters to which the provision relates; and different provision may be made by any such regulations or rules as respects different classes of cases to which the regulations or rules apply.

(5) Anything required or authorised by or under this Act to be done by, to or before the Board of Trade may be done by, to or before the President of the Board of Trade, any Minister of State with duties concerning the affairs of the Board, any secretary, under-secretary or assistant secretary of the Board, or any person authorised in that behalf by the President.

(6) In this section “order ” does not include an order of a court or of the tribunal.