Part 2: Courts, tribunals and coroners Chapter 2: Online procedure Section 28: Power to make amendments in relation to Online Procedure Rules
This section (mirroring provision in relation to Civil Procedure Rules and rules made by other rule committees) enables the Lord Chancellor by regulations to amend primary and secondary legislation as the Lord Chancellor considers necessary or desirable either in consequence of Online Procedure Rules or to facilitate the making of Online Procedure Rules. Regulations which amend primary legislation must be made subject to affirmative resolution procedure (subsection (5)), while those which amend subordinate legislation alone are subject to negative resolution procedure (subsection (6)). It is anticipated that this power will be used to make minor revisions to legislation in order, for example, to regularise and modernise terminology to match that in new rules. Before making regulations, the Lord Chancellor must consult the Lord Chief Justice and the Senior President of Tribunals (subsection (3)).