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Part 3: General provisions
Section 21: Ancillary provision
107.This section empowers the Scottish Ministers, by regulations, to make various types of ancillary provision (incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision) for the purposes of, in connection with, or to give full effect to the Act or any provision made under it.
108.Regulations under section 21 may modify any enactment (including this Act). The word “enactment” is defined in schedule 1 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 and includes Acts of the Scottish or UK Parliaments, as well as secondary legislation.
109.If regulations under section 21 textually amend an Act then they are subject to the affirmative procedure, but otherwise they are subject to the negative procedure (see section 22(2) of this Act and sections 28 and 29 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010).
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