Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Act 2023

Regulations and schemes

3. (1) The Minister may by regulations provide for any matter referred to in section 33 as prescribed or to be so prescribed.

(2) The Minister may make a scheme to provide for any matter referred to in section 28 as prescribed or to be so prescribed.

(3) The competent authority, having consulted with the Minister, may by regulations provide for any matter referred to in section 15 or 20 as prescribed or to be so prescribed.

(4) Without prejudice to any provision of this Act, regulations or schemes under this Act may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister or the competent authority having consulted with the Minister, as the case may be, to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.

(5) Every regulation or scheme under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation or scheme is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation or scheme is laid before it, the regulation or scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.