Part 7: Wales and Northern Ireland
Section 46: Wales
- Further provisions relating to Wales can be found in Schedule 5. This is at the request of the Welsh Government. These powers are intended to be time limited until a Welsh Agriculture Bill can be brought forward.
Section 47: Duration of provision in relation to Wales
- Section 47 ensures that the following provisions expire at the end of 2024; section 46 and Schedule 5, section 52(b) and, in Schedule 7, Part 2, section 56(1)(g), and in section 57(3), paragraph (b) and, so far as relating to Part 2 of Schedule 7, paragraph (c). It also allows Welsh Ministers, by regulations, to make transitional, transitory or saving provisions in connection with this section.
- Subsections (9) and (10) provide that regulations made under this section are subject to the negative resolution procedure, unless they are regulations which modify primary legislation (with or without other provision), in which case they are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.
Section 48: Northern Ireland
- Further provisions relating to Northern Ireland can be found in Schedule 6. This is to enable DAERA to continue to make payments to farmers and land managers after the UK leaves the EU and to ensure that Executive Ministers have the flexibility to develop policy in Northern Ireland.
