Section 60: Orders and Regulations
164.Section 60 makes provision in relation to orders and regulations made under the Act. Any power to make orders or regulations under the Act is exercisable by statutory instrument.
165.An order or regulations under the Act may also include incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitory and transitional provisions and savings.
166.Such provisions may, if contained in an order or regulations made by the Secretary of State, make amendments to legislation including Acts of the Scottish Parliament and a Measure or Act of the National Assembly for Wales.
167.Subsection (7) provides that section 60 does not authorise an order or regulations under the Act to make any provision which is within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament. The effect of this is that no provision which is made by virtue of section 60 may be made in relation to devolved matters. Subsection (7) does not prevent an order under the Act amending Acts of the Scottish Parliament for reserved purposes.
