Section 23: Power to make subsidiary enactments
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23. Power to make subsidiary enactments
Where an enactment confers power on any person to make a subsidiary
enactment—
(a) if the subsidiary enactment purports to be made in exercise of a
particular power, it shall also be deemed to be made in exercise
of every other enabling power;
(b) the subsidiary enactment may be amended in the same manner
by and in which it was made by the same person or by any other
person on whom the enactment may confer the power to make
the subsidiary enactment;
(c) for a general purpose and also for a special purpose, the special
purpose shall not derogate from the generality of the power conferred by the general provision.
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Questions this section answers
- If a law gives a general power to make regulations, can that power also be used for a specific purpose?