Section 20 – Consequential amendments
62.Section 20 gives effect to Schedule 2 to the Act which makes minor and consequential amendments to a number of enactments containing provisions relating to the making of byelaws subject to the confirmation procedure pursuant to section 236 of the 1972 Act. Where byelaws are to be subject to the alternative procedure detailed in the list at Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act, any requirement for confirmation is to only apply in England.
63.Amendments are made which place on a legislating authority the duties that were formerly exercised by the Welsh Ministers acting as the confirming authority.
64.Amendments are also made to sections 235, 236, 236B and section 238 of the 1972 Act to disapply these provisions in relation to Wales.