Part 2: Digital infrastructure Section 6: Power to make consequential provision etc in connection with the code
Schedule 3 to the Act provides for consequential amendments that stem from the new code in Schedule 1. This section confers a regulation-making power on the Secretary of State to make further consequential amendments connected to the new electronic communications code, should they be needed. Under subsection (2), this power can be used to amend any legislation, including primary legislation, passed until the end of the Parliamentary Session in which the Act is passed. Where the power is used to amend primary legislation, subsection (5) provides that the affirmative procedure will be required. Otherwise the negative procedure is applied, as provided for by subsection (6).