Part 6: Governance of Gas and Electricity Industry Codes Section 198: Regulations under Part 6
Section 198 explains the legal procedures that will be used when creating the regulations mentioned elsewhere in this Part and when seeking approval for these regulations from Parliament. In all but one case, these regulations will be subject to the negative procedure, whereby there is no automatic parliamentary debate on them. Regulations related to the transfer of the GEMA’s duty to publish a strategic direction statement to the ISOP will be subject to the more active form of parliamentary scrutiny through the affirmative procedure. Since the transfer will be a permanent one and would represent a significant change within the energy system, Parliament will be required to actively scrutinise and debate exercise of the power.