Final provisions
Section 20 – Ancillary provision
120.This section provides the Scottish Ministers with the power to make any ancillary provision which they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in connection with, or for giving full effect to the Act. Regulations made under this section may modify any legislation.
121.This power is exercisable by regulations. Where the regulations amend primary legislation, they are subject to the affirmative procedure (see section 29 of ILRA. Otherwise, they are subject to the negative procedure (see section 28 of ILRA).
Section 21 – Commencement
122.This section sets out when the provisions of the Act will come into force (i.e. begin to have effect). Some of the final sections of the Act, including this section, will come into force automatically on the day after Royal Assent is granted. However, for the most part, commencement will take place on the date or dates specified by the Scottish Ministers in regulations. These regulations will be laid before the Scottish Parliament but will not otherwise be subject to any parliamentary procedure (see section 30 of ILRA).
123.In addition, this section provides that commencement regulations may include transitional, transitory or saving provision and may make different provision for different purposes. In particular, this allows different sections of the Act to be commenced on different days.
Section 22 – Short title
124.This section provides for the short title of the resulting Act to be the Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023.
