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Section 82: Orders and regulations.

Freedom of Information Act 2000 · 2000 c. 36View on legislation.gov.uk

Part VIII: Miscellaneous and supplemental

Any power of the . . . Secretary of State or the Minister for the Cabinet Office to make an order or regulations under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

A statutory instrument containing (whether alone or with other provisions)—

an order under section 5, 7(3) or (8), 53(1)(a)(iii) or 75, or
regulations under section 10(4) or 74(3),

shall not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.

A statutory instrument which contains (whether alone or with other provisions)—

an order under section 4(1) or 47(4B), or
regulations under any provision of this Act not specified in subsection (2)(b),

and which is not subject to the requirement in subsection (2) that a draft of the instrument be laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

An order under section 4(5) shall be laid before Parliament after being made.

If a draft of an order under section 5 or 7(8) would, apart from this subsection, be treated for the purposes of the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument, it shall proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument.

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