{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-2006/section-157",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-2006/section-157.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/32",
  "legislation_title": "Government of Wales Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-of-wales-act-2006",
  "path": "section/157",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "157",
  "heading": "Orders , regulations and directions",
  "text": "(1) Any power of a Minister of the Crown or the Welsh Ministers under this Act to make an order or regulations is exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(2) Any such power and any power under this Act to make an Order in Council—\n(a) may be exercised so as to make different provision for different cases or classes of case or different purposes,\n(b) may be exercised so as to make provision which applies generally or subject to specified exemptions or exceptions or only in relation to specific cases or classes of case, and\n(c) includes power to make supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitory, transitional or saving provision.\n(3) Any power conferred by this Act to give a direction includes power to vary or revoke the direction.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 157(1) inserted (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), s. 71(4), Sch. 6 para. 8(3) (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(q)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 157 heading inserted (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), s. 71(4), Sch. 6 para. 8(2) (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(q)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/157",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:12.769607+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."
}