33Procedure as to rules, regulations and orders
(1)The Council may make rules generally for making provision with respect to any matters with respect to which the Council think that provision should be made for the purpose of carrying this Act (apart from Part III thereof) into effect and for prescribing anything which by this Act (apart from Part III thereof) is required or authorised to be prescribed.
(2)At least thirty days before any rules are made under this Act, notice of the proposal to make the rules, and of the place where copies of the draft rules may be obtained, shall be published by the Council in the Edinburgh Gazette and in such other manner as the Council think best adapted for ensuring publicity:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to rules made by the Council under paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section six, section seven, or subsection (1) of section twenty-five of, or under paragraph 4 of the First Schedule or paragraph 2 of the Third Schedule to. this Act.
(3)Rules made by the Council under this Act shall not come into operation unless and until they are approved by the Secretary of State.
(4)The Secretary of State may make regulations prescribing anything which is required to be prescribed under Part III of this Act.
(5)The power to approve rules conferred on the Secretary of State by subsection (3) of this section and any power to make an order or regulations conferred on him by this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.
(6)A statutory instrument by which the power to approve rules conferred on the Secretary of State by subsection (3) of this section is exercised and a statutory instrument containing a regulation or an order made under the provisions of this Act shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(7)Any power to make an order conferred on the Secretary of State by this Act shall be construed as including a power exercisable in the like manner and subject to the like conditions (if any) to revoke or vary the order.