Subsection (1) enables Her Majesty by Order in Council or a Minister of the Crown by order to make such provision as is considered necessary or expedient for transitory or transitional purposes in connection with the coming into force of any provision of the Scotland Act.
As at September 2001 this power has been exercised as follows:
Subsection (2) makes provision to take account of the possibility (which occurred) that the Human Rights Act 1998 might not be brought into force until after the creation of the Scottish Executive and Parliament.  In fact, the Human Rights Act did not come into force until 2 October 2000.  It was, however, intended that the Scottish Executive and the Parliament should be required to observe the Convention rights from the date when they assumed their powers.  The date of the assumption of powers was 1 July 1999 in the case of the Parliament and Scottish Ministers and 20 May 1999 in the case of the Lord Advocate (see the note on section 57).  This subsection therefore provides that provisions of the Scotland Act, which refer to the Human Rights Act, were to have effect as they would have effect when the Human Rights Act was brought into force.
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