Commentary on Provisions Part 3 – General Section 23 – Ancillary provision
177.Subsection (1) of this section provides for the Scottish Ministers to be able to make by regulations such incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision that they consider appropriate for the purpose of, or in connection with, or for giving full effect to the Act or any provision made under it.
178.Subsection (2) has the effect that such regulations may modify enactments.
179.Subsection (3) has the effect that regulations made under this section will be subject to the negative procedure, unless they modify the text of an Act in which case they will be subject to the affirmative procedure.