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Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025

Section 72 – Ancillary provision

213.This section empowers the Scottish Ministers, by regulations, to make various types of ancillary provision for the purposes of, in connection with, or to give full effect to the Act or any provision made under it.

214.Regulations under this section may modify any enactment (including the Act itself). The word “enactment” is defined in schedule 1 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010(19) and includes Acts of the Scottish or UK Parliaments as well as secondary legislation.

215.If regulations under this section textually amend an Act then they are subject to the affirmative procedure, but otherwise they are subject to the negative procedure (see sections 28 and 29 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 201020).

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