Commentary Section 12: commencement
31.Subsection (3) of section 12 provides for the amendment under paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to come into effect two months after Royal Assent. This amendment to the Immigration Act 1971 (c.77) will enable the Secretary of State for Health to delegate the appointment of medical inspectors under that Act to the National Assembly for Wales, in Wales, and to the Health Protection Agency Special Health Authority, in England. Subsections (1) and (2) provide for the remaining provisions of the Act to be brought into effect by order made by statutory instrument on such day or days as the Secretary of State may appoint, subject to prior consultation with those specified in subsection (4). Subsections (5) to (9) provide order-making powers subject to the procedures described for an appropriate authority to make provision in consequence of the coming into effect of the Act.