Part 13

Other special types of company etc
Chapter 7

Co-operative housing associations

Power to make further provision
649
1
The Secretary of State may by statutory instrument make regulations with respect to England and Scotland for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Chapter.
2
The Welsh Ministers may by statutory instrument make regulations with respect to Wales for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Chapter.
3
The Department for Social Development may make regulations with respect to Northern Ireland for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Chapter.
4
Regulations made under subsection (3) are a statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12)).
5
If any regulations under this section prescribe requirements for the purposes of section 645(5) or conditions for the purposes of section 645(6)—
a
any requirements or conditions previously prescribed under section 645(5) or (6) are to cease to have effect when the regulations come into force, and
b
no further exercise may be made of the power under section 645(5) or (6) to prescribe requirements or conditions otherwise than by regulations.
6
The reference in section 647(3)(c) to conditions that were in force by virtue of section 645(6) includes conditions prescribed for the purposes of section 645(6) under subsection (5) above.