Part 5General

29Orders and regulations

(1)

A power in this Act to make an order or regulations must be exercised by statutory instrument.

(2)

But a statutory instrument must not be made unless a draft of the order or regulations (as the case may be) has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.

(3)

An order or regulations—

(a)

may contain such consequential, incidental, supplementary or transitional provision or savings (including provision amending, repealing or revoking enactments) as the person making the order or regulations thinks appropriate;

(b)

may make different provision for different purposes.

(4)

If a draft of an instrument to which subsection (5) applies would apart from this section be treated for the purposes of the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument it must proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument.

(5)

This subsection applies to an instrument made under—

(a)

Part 1 of this Act;

(b)

section 17 of this Act;

(c)

section 129(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41) to the extent that it is made for the purpose of a referendum held in pursuance of an order under section 1 of this Act.