Section 42

Where by an Act which is not to come into operation until a date subsequent to its publication there is conferred a power to make subsidiary legislation, to make appointments or to do any other thing for the purposes of the Act, the power may be exercised on or at any time after the date of publication of the Act but (except to such extent as may be necessary to bring the Act or any provision thereof into operation) shall not have effect until the commencement of the Act or, where different provisions of the Act come into operation on different dates, the commencement of the provision conferring the power.

Interpretation 37