Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005
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Minister' power to make regulations. |
95.—(1) The Minister may— | |
(a) by regulation provide for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed, and | ||
(b) in addition to any other power conferred on him or her to make regulations, make regulations generally for the purposes of and for the purposes of giving full effect to this Act. | ||
(2) Regulations under this Act may contain any transitional and other supplementary and incidental provisions that appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations. | ||
(3) After consulting the registration board of any profession designated in section 4 (1) and any organisations that he or she considers appropriate, the Minister may, by regulation, prescribe one or more than one title that is a variant of the title specified in that section for the profession and that, in addition to the title specified in that section, may be used by registrants of that profession. | ||
(4) The Minister shall ensure that every regulation made under a provision of this Act (other than section 4 or subsection (3) of this section) is laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as practicable after it is made. | ||
(5) Either House of the Oireachtas may, by a resolution passed within 21 sitting days after the day on which a regulation is laid before it under subsection (4), annul the regulation. | ||
(6) The annulment of a regulation under subsection (5) takes effect immediately on the passing of the resolution concerned, but does not affect the validity of anything done under the regulation before the passing of the resolution. | ||
(7) A regulation may be made under subsection (3) only if— | ||
(a) a draft of the proposed regulation has been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas, and | ||
(b) a resolution approving the draft has been passed by each House. |