Final provisions
Section 26: Ancillary provision
133.This section gives the Scottish Ministers a freestanding regulation-making power to make any incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision that they consider appropriate for the purposes of, or in connection with, giving full effect to the Act or any provision made under it. Subsection (2) allows such regulations to modify any legislation, including the Act itself: in doing so the regulations would be subject to the affirmative Parliamentary procedure. Otherwise they are subject to the negative procedure.
Section 27: Commencement
134.This section provides that sections 26 and 28 (along with this section itself) come into force on the day after Royal Assent. All other provisions are to come into force on a day appointed by regulations made by the Scottish Ministers. These regulations may make transitional, transitory or saving provision related to commencement and may make different provision for different purposes. These regulations would require to be laid before the Parliament under section 30 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, but they are not otherwise subject to any Parliamentary procedure.
Section 28: Short title
135.This section provides that the Act is to be referred to as the Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024.
