Interpretation
Part 2: Final Provisions
Section 14: Ancillary provision
78.Section 14 of the Act 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).
79.Regulations under section 14 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).
Section 15: Commencement
80.Section 15 of the Act deals with when the Act’s provisions come into effect as a matter of law. It provides for all of the provisions to come into effect on the day after the Bill for the Act receives Royal Assent. That means all of the Act’s provisions came into effect on 23 November 2024. The process by which a Bill becomes an Act of the Scottish Parliament is set out in section 28 of the Scotland Act 1998.
Section 16: Short title
81.Section 16 of the Act provides that the Act’s short title is the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2024. The short title is the name by which an Act may be officially cited.
