Legislation Act 2019

Interpretation and application of legislation - General empowering provisions

41: Secondary legislation may make consequential amendments to other secondary legislation

You could also call this:

"New laws can update other related laws to keep them working well together."

When you make secondary legislation under one Act, you can also make changes to other secondary legislation. You can make these changes if they are a result of the new legislation or changes to it. This means you can update other laws to fit with the new ones.

If you are making these changes, you only need to meet the requirements for making the main secondary legislation. This is the case even if the changes affect other laws made under different Acts. You can make these changes to ensure all the laws work well together.

You might be wondering what a consequential amendment is. It is a change made to another law because of a new law or changes to an existing one. This helps keep all the laws consistent and up to date.

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Part 2Interpretation and application of legislation
General empowering provisions

41Secondary legislation may make consequential amendments to other secondary legislation

  1. A power to make secondary legislation (the main secondary legislation) under one Act (the main Act) includes a power to make consequential amendments to other secondary legislation made by the same person (whether or not made under the same Act).

  2. An amendment is consequential for the purposes of this section if it is consequential on the passing or making of either or both of the following:

  3. the main Act or any amendment to it:
    1. the main secondary legislation or any amendment to it.
      1. The only facts, circumstances, or preconditions that must exist or be satisfied before the consequential amendments are made are those (if any) for making the main secondary legislation.