{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthcare-international-arrangements-act-2019/section-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2019/14",
  "legislation_title": "Healthcare (International Arrangements) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthcare-international-arrangements-act-2019",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Regulations and directions",
  "text": "(1) A power of the Secretary of State or Welsh Ministers to make regulations under this Act is exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(1A) A power of a Northern Ireland department to make regulations under section 2A is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12)).\n(2) Regulations and directions under this Act may—\n(a) make different provision for different purposes;\n(b) be made for all cases to which the power in question applies, for those cases subject to specified exceptions or for any specified cases or descriptions of case;\n(c) make any provision either unconditionally or subject to specified conditions;\n(d) provide for a person to exercise a discretion in dealing with any matter;\n(e) include consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional, transitory or saving provision.\n(3) Regulations under this Act may amend, repeal or revoke assimilated law that is not primary legislation.\n(4) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this Act may not be made by the Secretary of State unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5A) Regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under section 2A are subject to the affirmative procedure (see Part 2 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10)).\n(5B) A statutory instrument containing regulations under section 2A may not be made by the Welsh Ministers unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of Senedd Cymru.\n(5C) Regulations may not be made by a Northern Ireland department under section 2A unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(6) In this section “primary legislation” means—\n(a) an Act;\n(b) an Act of the Scottish Parliament;\n(c) a Measure or Act of the National Assembly for Wales;\n(d) Northern Ireland legislation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1) inserted (18.8.2023) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 162(6)(a), 186(6); S.I. 2023/821, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 7(1A) inserted (18.8.2023) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 162(6)(b), 186(6); S.I. 2023/821, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 7(3) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1424), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 90"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 7(4) substituted (18.8.2023) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 162(6)(c), 186(6); S.I. 2023/821, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 7(5) omitted (18.8.2023) by virtue of Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 162(6)(d), 186(6); S.I. 2023/821, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 7(5A)-(5C) inserted (18.8.2023) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 162(6)(e), 186(6); S.I. 2023/821, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/14/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:10.725608+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."
}