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Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024

Section 71 – Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc.

180.Section 71 provides the Welsh Ministers with a power to make regulations containing supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional or saving provisions to give full effect to any provision of the Act. Those regulations must be made by statutory instrument and may amend, modify, repeal or revoke any enactment (which includes provision in Acts of Parliament, Acts or Measures of the Senedd and subordinate legislation).

181.Regulations under this section that amend Acts of Parliament or Acts or Measures of Senedd Cymru would need to be approved by the Senedd. Other regulations made under this section are subject to a negative resolution procedure in the Senedd.

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