PART 4GENERAL

52Further provision

1

The Department may by order make such supplementary, incidental or consequential provision as it thinks appropriate—

a

for the general purposes, or any particular purpose, of this Act;

b

in consequence of any provision made by or under this Act, or for giving full effect to it.

2

The Department may by order make such transitional or transitory provisions and savings as it considers appropriate in connection with any provision made by an order under subsection (1).

3

An order under this section may modify any statutory provision but any order which modifies an Act of Parliament or Northern Ireland legislation shall not be made unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.

4

In subsection (3), “modify” includes amend or repeal.

5

Subject to subsection (3), an order under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.

6

The powers conferred by this section are not restricted by any other provision of this Act.