18.— (1) The Minister may make regulations to specify the procedures to be followed for the purposes of an election referred to in section 17(1)(f) (including procedures preparatory to, or subsequent to, such an election).

(2) Every regulation made under this section 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 is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after that regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under it.