Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Act 2016

Final provisions

10 Regulations

(1) Regulations made under this Act by the Secretary of State are to be made by statutory instrument.

(2) A statutory instrument containing any of the following regulations may not be made unless a draft of it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament—

(a) regulations under section 4;

(b) regulations under section 5.

(3) Any other statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Act, except regulations containing only provision made under section 11, is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4) Regulations under this Act may make—

(a) different provision for different purposes or cases;

(b) incidental, supplementary or consequential provision;

(c) transitional or transitory provision or savings.

11 Short title, commencement and extent

(1) This Act may be cited as the Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Act 2016.

(2) Sections 6 to 8, section 10, this section and Schedules 1 and 2 come into force on the day on which this Act is passed.

(3) Section 9 comes into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

(4) The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by regulations.

(5) Regulations under this section may appoint different days for different purposes.

(6) This Act extends to Northern Ireland, England and Wales and Scotland.