‘P’ stands for ‘Power exercised’. Where a provision of primary legislation confers power to make subordinate legislation and that power is exercised (i.e. an instrument is made in pursuance of it), that exercise may be recorded in a P-note. The annotation will cite any instruments made under that power.
As P-notes always relate to whole provisions or sub-provisions, rather than to specific words, reference markers are not shown in the body of the text in order to reduce cluttering. The provision or sub-provision to which the P-note relates will be specified in the annotation.
At present, the P-note annotation type is used only in respect of the making of commencement orders (distinguished by a ‘C’ series number after the number of the instrument) or other exercises of a power to appoint a day.
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Northern Ireland Variations In Northern Ireland legislation made in 2005 and earlier years, all annotations, including those relating to exercises of power to make subordinate legislation, appear as F-notes under the ‘Annotations’ heading without any sub-categories. Also, annotations inserted prior to 2006 may vary from the SLD format illustrated above. In legislation made in 2006 and later years, the style and categorisation of annotations are consistent with usual SLD practice. |
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