{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000/section-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000/section-76.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/43",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000",
  "path": "section/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Subordinate legislation.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to any power conferred by this Act on ... the Secretary of State to make regulations, rules or an order.\n(2) The power, unless it is a power to make an order under section 19, 20 or 23, shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(3) The power may be exercised so as to make different provision for different purposes or different areas.\n(4) The power includes power to make—\n(a) any supplementary, incidental or consequential provision, and\n(b) any transitory, transitional or saving provision,\nwhich the Minister exercising the power considers necessary or expedient.\n(5) An order—\n(a) making any provision by virtue of section 10, 26(2), 36(15), 57(5) or 70(2) or 57(5), or\n(b) making any provision by virtue of section 77(2) which adds to, replaces or omits any part of the text of an Act,\nmay only be made if a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.\n(5A) A statutory instrument containing regulations under section 71 may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.\n(6) Any other statutory instrument made in exercise of a power to which this section applies shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(7) Subsection (6) does not apply to a statutory instrument containing an order—\n(a) revoking an order made by virtue of section 10, or\n(b) made by virtue only of section 80.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 76(1) repealed (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 18 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 30(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 76(5)(a) substituted (29.4.2026 for specified purposes) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), ss. 183(6)(b), 255(1)(2)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 76(5A) inserted (29.4.2026 for specified purposes, 29.6.2026 in so far as not already in force) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), ss. 181(3), 255(1)(2)(e); S.I. 2026/689, reg. 2(1)(u) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/43/section/76",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:22.078398+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}