Commentary on provisions of Act Section 8: Power of Secretary of State to make further consequential provision
Section 8 allows for amendment or modification of any provision of primary or secondary legislation that is not transferred Northern Ireland provision. This may be required in order to ensure that the consequences of the quashing of a conviction can be applied to these convictions quashed by Act of Parliament in the same way as they do to convictions quashed by a court on appeal.
	Subsection 8(1) confers a power on the Secretary of State to make consequential provision for the purposes of the Act. Subsection 8(2) details how this power may be exercised by amending or otherwise modifying any provision made under primary legislation passed before or in the same session as this Act.
	Subsection 8(3) specifies that this power does not apply to any provision which is transferred Northern Ireland provision.
	Subsections 8(4) to 8(6) provide for the ways in which regulations are to be made. Subsection 8(7) defines primary legislation for the purposes of this section.