(1)The Scottish Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument make—
(a)any supplementary, incidental or consequential provision;
(b)any transitory, transitional or saving provision,
which they consider necessary or expedient for the purposes of, in consequence of, or for giving full effect to, any provision of this Act.
(2)An order under subsection (1) may amend or repeal any enactment (including any provision of this Act).
(3)Subject to subsection (4), a statutory instrument containing an order under subsection (1) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Parliament.
(4)A statutory instrument containing an order made by virtue of subsection (2) is not made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Parliament.
In this Act—
“the 1993 Act” means the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 9);
“community justice authority” means a body corporate established under section 3(1);
“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39); and
“relevant person” has the meaning given by section 1(2).
(1)This section and sections 13, 17, 20, 22, 23, and 25 come into force on Royal Assent.
(2)The remaining provisions of this Act come into force in accordance with provision made by the Scottish Ministers by order made by statutory instrument.
(3)Different provision may be made under subsection (2) for different purposes and for different areas.
This Act may be cited as the Management of Offenders etc. (Scotland) Act 2005