Protection of Freedoms Act 2012

89 Orders under section 88

(1) Any power to make an order under section 88—

(a) is exercisable by statutory instrument,

(b) includes power to make consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional, transitory or saving provision,

(c) may, in particular, be exercised by amending, repealing, revoking or otherwise modifying any provision made by or under an enactment (whenever passed or made and including this Act).

(2) Subject to subsection (3), a statutory instrument containing an order under section 88 is not to be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

(3) A statutory instrument containing an order under section 88 which neither amends nor repeals any provision of primary legislation is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4) If a draft of an instrument containing an order under section 88 (alone or with other provision) would, apart from this subsection, be treated as a hybrid instrument for the purposes of the standing orders of either House of Parliament, it is to proceed in that House as if it were not a hybrid instrument.

(5) In this section—

• “enactment” includes a Measure or Act of the National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland legislation,

• “primary legislation” means—

  (a)

  a public general Act,

  (b)

  a Measure or Act of the National Assembly for Wales, and

  (c)

  Northern Ireland legislation.