Section 46: Ancillary provision
152.Section 46 enables the Scottish Ministers to make ancillary provision, by regulations, to give full effect to the Act or any provision made under it. It includes the power to modify other enactments (including the Act itself).
153.Regulations under section 46 that amend the text of an Act are subject to parliamentary scrutiny under the affirmative procedure (as defined by section 29 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010). Otherwise, they are subject to the negative procedure (as defined by section 28 of that Act).