PART 5SUPPLEMENTARY AND GENERAL

General

135Regulations under this Act: supplementary and procedural provisions

(1)

A power to make regulations under this Act includes power to make—

(a)

consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional or saving provision;

(b)

different provision for different purposes (including different provision for buildings of different descriptions, whether by reference to the categories set out in section 6 or any other matter).

(2)

A power to make regulations about the form or way in which any document or other thing is to be given to a building safety authority or fire safety authority includes power to provide that it is to be given in a form or way specified in a direction given and published by the authority in accordance with the regulations.

(3)

A power to make regulations under this Act must be exercised by Welsh statutory instrument.

(4)

Regulations to which this subsection applies are subject to the Senedd approval procedure.

(5)

Subsection (4) applies to regulations under any of the following provisions—

(a)

section 4(6);

(b)

section 5(5);

(c)

section 6(6);

(d)

section 13(3);

(e)

section 15;

(f)

section 16;

(g)

section 17 (see also section 77 for further provision about a Welsh statutory instrument containing regulations under section 17);

(h)

section 28(2) (see also section 77 for further provision about a Welsh statutory instrument containing regulations under section 28(2));

(i)

section 31(2);‍

(j)

section 42(9);

(k)

section 46;

(l)

section 50;

(m)

section 63(4);

(n)

section 66;

(o)

section 69;

(p)

section 75 (see also section 77 for further provision about a Welsh statutory instrument containing regulations under section 75);

(q)

section 78(8);

(r)

section 84(4);

(s)

section 99(7);

(t)

Part 4;

(u)

paragraph 21(3) of Schedule 2‍;

(v)

paragraph 1(5) of Schedule 4.

(6)

Subsection (4) also applies to regulations under section 137(3) that amend or repeal any provision of primary legislation.

(7)

Any other regulations under this Act are subject to the Senedd annulment procedure.

(8)

In subsection (6) “primary legislation” means—

(a)

an Act of Senedd Cymru;

(b)

an Assembly Measure;

(c)

an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.