Part 2: Final Provisions Section 89: Expiry
The Act supports public bodies, and the wider society, in responding purely to the COVID-19 outbreak and so is time limited. This section provides that the Act expires at the end of the period of 2 years beginning with the day on which it is passed. Two qualifications to that basic principle are set out in subsection (2) (which lists the provisions that will not expire) and section 90 which allows for the period to be extended (or shortened) in relation to all other provisions.
	Subsection (3) allows Ministers to make regulations which set out technical transitional, transitory and savings provisions in connection with the expiry of any provision of the Act. Subsection (4) specifies when consent of the relevant Devolved Administration is required in respect of this regulation-making power. The section also provides the same powers to the relevant Devolved Administration in so far as the provision relates to an area within the relevant Devolved Legislature’s legislative competence.