The Act: Section by Section Section 2: Ancillary provision
18.Section 2 enables the Scottish Ministers, by regulations, to make various types of ancillary provision if they think it appropriate to give full effect to the Act. This includes the power to make different provision for different purposes, and to modify any other legislation (whether primary or secondary).
19.Regulations made under this section that amend the text of primary legislation are subject to the affirmative procedure(17). Otherwise, they are subject to the negative procedure(18).