PART 4GENERAL

84Interpretation

1

In this Act—

  • “the 1982 Act” means the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982,

  • “the 2005 Act” means the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005.

2

See section 40 for the interpretation of words and expressions used in Part 1.

85Regulations

1

Any power of the Scottish Ministers to make regulations under this Act includes power to make—

a

different provision for different purposes,

b

incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision.

2

Regulations under section 2(4), 8(3) or 20(3) are subject to the affirmative procedure.

3

Regulations under section 86(1) containing provisions which add to, replace or omit any part of the text of an Act are subject to the affirmative procedure.

4

All other regulations under this Act are subject to the negative procedure.

86Ancillary provision

1

The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make such incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as they consider necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or in consequence of, or for giving full effect to, any provision of this Act or any provision made under it.

2

Regulations under this section may modify this or any other enactment.

I1I2I387Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

Schedule 2 contains—

a

minor amendments, and

b

amendments and repeals consequential on the provisions of this Act.

88Commencement

1

Section 60(1) and (2) and this Part, other than section 87, come into force on the day after Royal Assent.

2

The other provisions of this Act (including section 87) come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by order appoint.

3

An order under this section may include transitional, transitory or saving provision.

89Short title

The short title of this Act is the Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015.