Commentary on provisions of Act Sections 4 to 6: Consequential provision, financial provision and extent, application and short title
Section 4 introduces the Schedule to the Act which makes consequential amendments to both the 1988 Act and the 2009 Act. This Section also specifies that powers to make regulations must be exercisable by statutory instrument. This Section gives the Secretary of State, or in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers, powers to make regulations as they consider appropriate in consequence of this Act, including amending primary legislation. If a statutory instrument amends primary legislation, the affirmative procedure applies; all other statutory instruments follow the negative procedure.
	Section 5 recognises that, as a matter of House of Commons procedure, a financial resolution needed to be agreed for the Bill from which the Act resulted.
	Section 6 provides that the Act extends to England and Wales only and that the amendments made by the Act to the 1988 Act and the 2009 Act have effect from 1 April 2017.