Commentary on Sections Miscellaneous and supplemental Section 15: Commencement, transitional provision and savings
34.Subsection (3) preserves for the Welsh Ministers their current power to reverse or amend the effects of a statutory instrument previously made by the National Assembly for Wales that extended the scope of travel concessions available in Wales. More specifically, in 2001, the National Assembly made the Travel Concessions (Extension of Entitlement) (Wales) Order 2001 (SI 2001/3765). Elements of this are now enshrined in the Act. For example, the effect of amendments made to section 145 of the 2000 Act by the 2001 Order to provide that a permit issued by a Welsh travel concession authority has effect in Wales generally rather than just in a travel concession authority area is now recreated in the new section 145B. As the law is being restated, the Act revokes the statutory instrument – this would normally remove the ability of the Welsh Ministers to reverse or amend the effects of the statutory instrument by revoking or amending the instrument. However, subsection (3) ensures that the Welsh Ministers retain equivalent revocation and amendment powers.