Commentary on Sections

Section 198 – Power to make consequential and transitional provision etc

513.Section 198 enables the Welsh Ministers to make regulations which make supplementary, incidental or consequential provision or which make transitional or savings provision, in order to give full effect to a provision of the Act or as a consequence of a provision of the Act.

514.This power can be used, for example, to repeal provisions about social services in Wales that are being replaced by provision in this Act, and to make any consequential amendments arising from such repeal.