Commentary on provisions of Act Section 16: Authority by whom regulations may be made
This Section defines the "appropriate national authority" by which regulations may be made under this Act as the Secretary of State, the Lord Chancellor or, where a provision falls within devolved competence, Welsh Ministers, Scottish Ministers or Northern Ireland Departments, as stipulated in subsections (2) to (4). This is because some professions are regulated on a devolved, rather than a UK- or Great Britain-wide, basis. The Act reflects this regulatory landscape by enabling devolved administrations to make regulations under this Act as they see fit for such devolved professions.
	Restrictions in Schedule 7B to the Government of Wales Act 2006 prevent the Senedd from removing, without the consent of the appropriate UK Government Minister, any function of a Minister of the Crown that is exercisable concurrently or jointly with a Minister of the Crown. Subsection (7) disapplies the relevant restrictions in respect of the concurrent powers in the Act, by adding the Professional Qualifications Act 2022, to the lists of enactments in paragraph 11(6)(b) of Schedule 7B. This allows the Senedd to alter the concurrent arrangements in future without needing the UK Government’s consent.