Part 2: Digital infrastructure Section 5: Power to make transitional provision in connection with the code
Subsection (1) confers a regulation-making power on the Secretary of State to make amendments related to any transitional provisions in connection with the code coming into force. Subsection (2) provides that the power can be used to amend any legislation, including primary legislation, passed until the end of the Parliamentary Session in which the Act is passed. Where the power is used to amend primary legislation, subsection (3)(a) provides that the affirmative procedure will be required. Otherwise the negative procedure is applied, as provided for by subsection (3)(b).