Commencement
Section 208(4) provided for the following substantive provisions to come into force on Royal Assent: sections 13, 22 and 23 (functions relating to serious violence); sections 31 and 34 to 36 (offensive homicide reviews); section 71 (administering a substance with intent to cause harm); section 72 (response to Law Commission report on hate crime laws); section 132 (power to refer high-risk offenders to the Parole Board); sections 140 to 143 (driving disqualifications: extension in connection with custodial period); section 161(2)-(9) (youth rehabilitation orders); sections 163 and 164 (secure schools and secure 16 to 19 academies); section 166 (serious violence reduction orders: piloting); section 167(2) to (4) (knife crime prevention order on conviction: adjournment of proceedings); section 189 (arrangements for assessing risk etc posed by certain offenders); section 191 (football banning orders: power to amend list of relevant offences); sections 198 and 199 (transmission and recording of court and tribunal proceedings); section 202 (expedited procedure for initial regulations about remote observation of proceedings); Part 14 (final provisions with the exception of Section 204 and Schedule 21). Certain regulation-making powers and powers to issue guidance also come into force on Royal Assent.
	Section 208(5) provides for the following provisions to come into force two months after Royal Assent: section 2 (increase in penalty for assault on emergency workers); section 3 (required life sentence for manslaughter of emergency worker); section 47 (positions of trust); section 50 (criminal damage to memorials); section 51 and Schedule 5 (overseas production orders); section 54 (PACE etc powers for food crime offices); section 58 (functions of prisoner custody officers in relation to live link hearings); section 59 (proceeds of crime: account freezing orders); sections 83 to 85 (unauthorised encampments); sections 86 to 88 and Schedule 8 (road traffic offences); section 122 and 123 (penalties for offences involving children or vulnerable adults); section 124 and Schedule 12 (minimum sentences for particular offences); sections 125 to 128 (life sentences: time to be served); sections 130 and 131 (release on licence); section 135 (repeal of uncommenced provision for establishment of recall adjudicators); sections 144 to 148 (custodial sentences: minor amendments); sections 150, 151, 153 and 154 and Schedules 14 and 15 (community and suspended sentence orders); sections 157 to 160 and 161(1) and Schedule 16 and Parts 1, 4 and 5 of Schedule 17 (youth rehabilitation orders); section 162 (abolition of reparation orders); sections 184 to 188 and Schedule 19 (management of terrorist offenders); sections 196 and 197 (juries); sections 200 and 200(1) and Schedule 20 (video and audio links in criminal proceedings); and section 204 and Schedule 21 (minor amendments arising out of sentencing consolidation).
	The remaining provisions will be brought into force by means of commencement regulations made by the Secretary of State (section 208(1)). Sections 34, 161 and 166 enable the provisions in Chapter 2 of Part 2 (homicide reviews), Parts 2 and 3 of Schedule 17 (youth rehabilitation orders) and Chapter 1 of Part 10 (SVROs) respectively to be piloted.