Commentary on Sections Part 6 - General Section 56 – Coming into force
279.Section 56 brings the provisions of the Act into force.
280.Subsection (1) brings the following provisions of the Act into force on the day after the day of Royal Assent: Part 4 (but only for the purpose of making regulations under section 32 of the Forestry Act 1967) and Part 6 (except section 55, and Schedules 2 and 3).
281.Subsection (2) brings the following provisions into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day of Royal Assent: Part 1 (SLM); Chapter 1 of Part 2 (Welsh Ministers’ power to provide support); Chapter 2 of Part 2 (power to modify legislation relating to financial and other support);), and Part 5 (wildlife)
282.Subsection (3) brings certain provisions of Schedule 2 into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day of Royal Assent, and section 55 to the extent that it relates to those provisions. (In the case of the provisions specified in paragraphs (a) and (b), they are commenced only for specified purposes.) This is to ensure that, to the extent that consequential amendments and repeals in Schedule 2 relate to the provisions of the Act commenced by subsection (2), those amendments and repeals themselves come into force at the end of the two-month period.
283.Subsection (4) provides that all other provisions of the Act come into force on a day appointed in an order made by the Welsh Ministers.
284.Subsection (5) allows an order under subsection (4) to appoint different days for different purposes and to make transitory, transitional and saving provision.