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Section 26 Regulations, orders and warrants.

United Kingdom

(1)

Any power to make regulations, orders or warrants under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

F1(2)

A statutory instrument containing—

(a)

regulations under section 2 of this Act, or

(b)

an order under section 4 of this Act,

shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4)

A draft of any statutory instrument containing a warrant under section 11 of this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament for at least forty days before the statutory instrument is made; but section 6 of the M1Statutory Instruments Act 1946 (which provides that statutory instruments of which drafts are to be laid before Parliament shall not be made until the expiration of a period of forty days during which either House may resolve that the instrument be not made) shall not apply to a statutory instrument containing such a warrant.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

S. 26(2) substituted (28.7.2000) for s. 26(2)(3) by 2000 c. 17, s. 152(2)(3)

Marginal citations

M1

1946 c. 36.