3.— (1) The Minister may by regulations provide for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.

(2) Without prejudice to any provision of this Act, regulations under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.

(3) A regulation or order under this Act may—

(a) apply in respect of all education and training boards or such education and training boards or classes of education and training boards as are specified in the regulation or order, and

(b) contain different provisions in relation to different education and training boards or to different parts of an education and training board area.

(4) Every order (other than an order under section 1(2), section 8 or section 43(3)) or regulation made by the Minister 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 order or regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the order or regulation is laid before it, the order or regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.