Commentary on Sections Section 2: Consequential amendments and repeals
12.Subsection (1) introduces Schedules 2 (consequential amendments) and 3 (repeals) to the Act.  Subsections (2) and (4) confer power on the Secretary of State, or the appropriate Department in Northern Ireland, to make consequential amendments to existing regulations.  This power reflects the fact that existing regulations made under section 15 of the 1974 Act and/or under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, apply section 33 of the 1974 Act with modifications.  These modifications will need to be revised to reflect the amendments made by the Act to the 1974 Act.  The purpose of including the power at subsections (2) and (4) is to enable the necessary changes to existing regulations to be made by statutory instrument subject to the negative resolution procedure.