Commencement and Duration
70.Sections 1 to 9 (advertising and trading; sale of tickets – increase of maximum fine; and traffic) come into force two months after the day on which the Act received Royal Assent: see section 10(1). As no express provision is made in the Act for the commencement of section 10 (commencement, etc.), it came into force at the beginning of the day on which the Act received Royal Assent (see section 4 of the Interpretation Act 1978).
71.Section 3 applies only to offences committed after the commencement of the provision: see section 3(2).
72.Sections 4 to 9 are repealed at the end of the London Olympics Period which, under section 1(3)(c) of the 2006 Act, ends with the fifth day after the end of the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games: see section 10(2). But the repeal of those sections does not affect any liability incurred, or prevent any liability arising, under a provision of the 2006 Act in respect of a contravention to which a penalty charge is applicable (and a penalty charge may be imposed for the contravention as if sections 4 to 8 had not been repealed): see section 10(3).