Commentary on provisions of Act Section 2: Power to make further changes to the constitution of Council and its Committees
Section 2 inserts a new section 17A into the FRA.
	New section 17A, subsection 1 gives the Secretary of State power to make regulations to amend, or replace any, or all of the following:
Part 1 of Schedule 1 (constitution of the Council);
Schedule 2 (constitution of the Investigating Committee);
Part 1 of Schedule 3 (constitution of the Disciplinary Committee).
	New section 17A, subsection 2 requires that, before making regulations under section 17A, the Secretary of State must obtain the consent of the Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers.
	New section 17A, subsection 3 requires the Secretary of State to consult the FRC as well as any other person that the Secretary of State considers appropriate before making regulations under section 17A of the amended Act.
	New section 17A, subsection 4 contains provision that requires that any regulations under section 17A be made by statutory instrument and provides that the regulations may include incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provisions.
	New section 17A, subsection 5 sets out the requirement that any statutory instrument made under section 17A will be subject to the negative resolution parliamentary procedure.