70.—(1) Any power vested in the Privy Council to make an order under this Order may be exercised by any two or more members of the Privy Council.
(2) Any power of the Privy Council to make an order under this Order is exercisable by statutory instrument and, except for an order made solely in respect of approving rules under article 19, 27, 31 or 36 (or any of those articles together with article 66(1)), an order of the Privy Council under this Order is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament or of the Scottish Parliament.
(3) Paragraph (2) and article 66(4) do not preclude the inclusion of rules under article 19, 27, 31 or 36 in a set of rules which is to be approved by an order of the Privy Council that is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament or of the Scottish Parliament.
(4) For the purposes of section 1 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946(1) (definition of “Statutory Instrument”), any power of the Privy Council to make an order under this Order is to be taken to be conferred by an Act of Parliament.
(5) Any act of the Privy Council under this Order is sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council.
(6) Where an order or act of the Privy Council under this Order is signified by an instrument purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council, that is evidence, and in Scotland, sufficient evidence, of—
(a)the fact that the order was duly made, or the act duly done; and
(b)the order’s terms.
1946 c.36. Section 1(1A) was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 12 to the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c.38) and substituted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 10 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32).