Part 5: General Section 79: Regulations
Section 79 sets out that regulations made under the powers in the Act will be made by statutory instrument and may make different provision for different purposes. This may include provisions that are supplementary, incidental, saving or transitional.
	Subsection (3) provides for the affirmative parliamentary procedure to apply to regulations made under section 17 (disclosures by victims that cannot be precluded by agreement).
	Subsections (4) – (11) and (14)- (20) relate to Part 3 of the Act. These create a power to make consequential amendments via regulations, conferred on the Secretary of State and their counterparts for each of the devolved administrations, to the extent it is within their respective legislative competence.
	These regulations apply to authorise any changes, or revocation of any provisions made within, or resulting from, primary legislation. This power extends to previous, made legislation, and equally allows amendments to be made to legislation postdating the making of these provisions.
	Subsection (12) provides for the affirmative parliamentary procedure to apply to regulations made under section 78 (1) or (2) (consequential provision) if those regulations amend, repeal or revoke primary legislation.
	Subsections (13) and (21) provide for the negative parliamentary procedure to apply to any other regulations made under powers in the Act, excluding regulations provided for in section 79 regarding commencement and transitional provisions for the Act, which are not subject to parliamentary procedure.