Search Legislation

Advanced Search

Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

Section 155: Regulations and orders

Subsection (1) provides that all regulations, other than those to which subsection (2) applies, are to be subject to the negative resolution procedure. Those to which subsection (2) applies are subject to the draft affirmative resolution procedure (subsection (3)) and these are listed in subsection (2). Subsection (4) lists the orders that must be subject to the draft affirmative resolution procedure and subsection (5) provides that an order under section 157, other than an order which amends or repeals a provision of an Act of Parliament or Northern Ireland legislation, is subject to negative resolution. Subsection (6) enables regulations and orders to contain ancillary provision.

Back to top

Options/Help

Print Options

Close

Explanatory Notes

Text created by the Northern Ireland Assembly department responsible for the subject matter of the Act to explain what the Act sets out to achieve and to make the Act accessible to readers who are not legally qualified. Explanatory Notes accompany all Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Close

More Resources

Access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item from this tab. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:

  • the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy
  • lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item
  • confers power and blanket amendment details
  • all formats of all associated documents
  • correction slips
  • links to related legislation and further information resources