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Regulations and minor and consequential amendments

23. (1) Any power of the Scottish Ministers to make regulations under this Act shall be exercised by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(2) Regulations under this Act may make different provision for different cases or different circumstances and may contain such incidental, supplemental or transitional provisions as the Secretary of State thinks fit.

(3) The enactments specified in Schedule 4 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, being minor amendments and amendments consequential upon the provisions of this Act.

Section 23: REGULATIONS AND MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

This section is a formal provision setting out how the Scottish Ministers are to exercise their regulation-making powers; provides that regulations made under the Act can cater for different cases and circumstances in different ways; it gives the Scottish Ministers discretion to make incidental, supplemental or transitional provisions in the regulations and gives effect to Schedule 4 to the Act. Schedule 4 makes minor consequential amendments to other Acts.

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