2[F1Statutory Instruments Act 1946, s.4: notification during vacancy of office of Speaker of either House]U.K.

It is hereby declared that the requirement imposed by subsection (1) of section four of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946, to send notification forthwith [F2to the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Speaker of the House of Lords] where a statutory instrument required to be laid before Parliament has been made so as to come into operation before it has been so laid, is to be treated as having been complied with, in a case in which notification forthwith is impossible by reason of a vacancy for the time being in the office [F3of the Speaker of the House of Commons or the Speaker of the House of Lords] , whether occurring by death, resignation, dissolution of Parliament or otherwise, if the notification is sent to him immediately after the vacancy is filled.