{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-1978/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-1978/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/30",
  "legislation_title": "Interpretation Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-act-1978",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Implied power to amend.",
  "text": "Where an Act confers power to make—\n(a) rules, regulations or byelaws; or\n(b) Orders in Council, orders or other subordinate legislation to be made by statutory instrument,\nit implies, unless the contrary intention appears, a power, exercisable in the same manner and subject to the same conditions or limitations, to revoke, amend or re-enact any instrument made under the power.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 14 applied (E.W.) by Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57, SIF 130), ss. 138(6), 225(2)S. 14 saved (E.W.) (6.3.1992) by School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1991 (c. 49, SIF 41:1), s. 2(8); S.I. 1992/532, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 14 extended (E.W.) (10.11.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 170(5); S.I. 1993/2762, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 14 excluded (15.2.1999) by 1998 c. 17, s. 25(9), (with Sch. 3 para. 5(1)); S.I. 1999/161, art. 2S. 14 excluded (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 46, s. 115, Sch. 7 para. 5 (with s. 126(3)-(11))S. 14 excluded (28.7.2000) by 2000 c. 26, s. 122(11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 14 excluded (E.W.) (7.6.2018) by Law Derived from the European Union (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 3), s. 21, Sch. 2 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 14 excluded (26.6.2018) by European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16), s. 25(1)(e), Sch. 7 para. 37 (with s. 19, Sch. 8 para. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 14 excluded (22.11.2018) by Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (c. 13), ss. 45(7), 64(2) (with ss. 52(3), 53, 58); S.I. 2018/1213, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 14 excluded (31.12.2020) by European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 (c. 29), s. 40(6)(e), Sch. 5 para. 33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/30/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:28:41.068866+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}