Commentary on Sections Part 1: Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Chapter 6: Supplementary Section 50: Subordinate legislation
109.This section provides that the power to make orders under Part 1 is to be exercised by statutory instrument, and that the negative resolution procedure will apply to such instruments, although subsection (5) provides that an order designating a country that is not a Member State of the EU as a “participating country” under section 51(2)(b) is subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.