{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-training-prioritisation-act-2026/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-training-prioritisation-act-2026/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/7",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-training-prioritisation-act-2026",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Regulations: general",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, “the appropriate authority” means—\n(a) in relation to medical training programmes anywhere in the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State;\n(b) in relation to medical training programmes in Wales, the Welsh Ministers;\n(c) in relation to medical training programmes in Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;\n(d) in relation to medical training programmes in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n(2) Regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Act are to be made by statutory instrument.\n(3) Regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under this Act are to be made by Welsh statutory instrument (see section 37A of the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 (anaw 4)).\n(4) For regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under this Act, see section 27 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10) (definition of “Scottish statutory instrument”).\n(5) Any power of the Department of Health in Northern Ireland to make regulations under this Act is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12)).\n(6) A power to make regulations under this Act includes power to make—\n(a) consequential, incidental, supplemental, transitional and saving provision;\n(b) different provision for different purposes.\n(7) A power of the Secretary of State to make regulations under this Act includes power to make different provision for different parts of the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 6.3.2026 by S.I. 2026/221, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/7/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:42:28.420533+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."
}