The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for the establishment, maintenance and operation of procedures for the determination from time to time of—
the rates of pay and allowances to be applied to the prison service; and
such other terms and conditions of employment in that service as may appear to him to fall to be determined in association with the determination of rates of pay and allowances.
Before making any regulations under this section the Secretary of State shall consult with such organisations appearing to him to be representative of persons working in the prison service and with such other persons as he thinks fit.
The power to make regulations under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Regulations under this section may—
provide for determinations with respect to matters to which the regulations relate to be made wholly or partly by reference to such factors, and the opinion or recommendations of such persons, as may be specified or described in the regulations;
authorise the matters considered and determined in pursuance of the regulations to include matters applicable to times and periods before they are considered or determined;
make such incidental, supplemental, consequential and transitional provision as the Secretary of State thinks fit; and
make different provision for different cases.
For the purposes of this section, the prison service comprises all the individuals who:
hold any post, other than as chaplain or assistant chaplain, to which they have been appointed for the purposes of section 7 of the Prison Act 1952;
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hold any post, otherwise than as a medical officer, to which those individuals have been appointed for the purposes of section 3(1A) of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989.