Section 17—Ancillary provision
90.Section 17 enables the Scottish Ministers, by regulations, to make various types of ancillary provision if they think it appropriate to give full effect to the Act. This includes the power to make different provision for different purposes, and to modify any other legislation (whether primary or secondary) as well as the Act itself. Regulations made under this section that amend the text of primary legislation are subject to the affirmative procedure.(13) Otherwise, they are subject to the negative procedure.(14)
See section 29 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (legislation.gov.uk) for details of the affirmative procedure.
See section 28 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (legislation.gov.uk) for details of the negative procedure.
