(1)Section 144 and, accordingly, section 145 and subsections (3) and (4) below expire at the end of the relevant period unless the power conferred by subsection (1) of section 144 is exercised before the end of that period.
(2)The “relevant period” is the period of 7 years beginning with the day on which section 144 comes into force.
(3)Regulations under section 144 are subject to affirmative resolution procedure.
(4)If a draft of a statutory instrument containing regulations under section 144 would, apart from this subsection, be treated for the purposes of the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument, it is to proceed in that House as if it were not a hybrid instrument.