Section 46 creates a power for the Secretary of State to make any consequential amendments that may be required to existing law to ensure consistency in the statute book and operability of the provisions of this Act by way of regulations. Subsection (4) provides that these regulations can make supplementary, incidental, transitional or saving provision, and different provision for different purposes or areas. Regulations made under section 46 are subject to the negative procedure unless they amend, repeal or revoke primary legislation in which case they are subject to the draft affirmative procedure.
Part 5: General Section 46: Power to make consequential provision