(1) Regulations made
for the purposes of this Act may adopt the text of any published document
specified in the regulations —
(a) as
that text exists at a particular date; or
(b) as
that text may from time to time be amended.
(2) The text may be
adopted —
(a)
wholly or in part; or
(b) as
modified by the regulations.
(3) The adoption may
be direct (by reference made in the regulations), or indirect (by reference
made in any text that is itself directly or indirectly adopted).
(4) The adoption of
text is of no effect unless —
(a) the
adopted text; and
(b) if
text is adopted as it may be amended from time to time, either —
(i)
the amendments to the text; or
(ii)
the text as amended,
can at all reasonable
times be inspected or purchased by the public.