Part 5: General Schedule 7: Transitional provisions
This Schedule contains transitional provisions.
	Paragraph 1 ensures that none of the Act’s provisions do anything to affect the validity (and continuing operation and effect) of any Assembly Act or Measure that has been passed before the amendments in the Act take effect.
	Paragraph 2 provides that the new legislative competence tests (as inserted by section 3 and Schedules 1 and 2) only apply to an Assembly Act if the relevant Bill passed Stage 1 on or after the principal appointed day. Passing Stage 1 means the Assembly has voted in favour of the Assembly Bill’s general principles. The principal appointed day is to be set out in regulations made by the Secretary of State under section 71(3).
	Paragraph 3 has the effect that in the period beginning with the date two months after Royal Assent and ending on the date of the principal appointed day, the Assembly will have the legislative competence to amend the sections of GoWA that provide for the name of the Assembly, the name of the Assembly Commission and what Acts of the Assembly are to be called. This is to allow the Assembly to effect a name change before the principal appointed day if it so wishes.
	Paragraph 4 provides that the Act’s repeal of section 105 of GoWA does not affect the continuing operation of an amendment to an enactment made by an order under section 105(2). However, that is subject to an amendment or repeal of such an enactment made by this Act.
	Paragraph 5 clarifies that the Act’s repeal of section 106(2) of GoWA does not affect the continuing operation of the saving section 106(2) makes in relation to the continuing effect of Assembly Measures.
	Paragraph 6 contains transitional provisions which apply generally where functions are devolved to Welsh Ministers by other provisions of the Act.  The validity of pre-commencement actions is preserved and anything that is in the process of being done on commencement may be continued by Welsh Ministers.  The paragraph does not apply where alternative transitional provision is made on the face of the Act in connection with the devolution of functions to Welsh Ministers.  Transitional provisions may also be made in regulations under the powers conferred by section 70(2).
	Paragraph 7 makes transitional provision regarding licensed water suppliers and water supply licensees (as defined in the Water Industry Act 1991). Until all the relevant reforms made by the Water Act 2014 come into force and, thereby, completely replace licensed water suppliers with water supply licensees, the reservation in the Act for water and sewerage (Section C15 of new Schedule 7A) will continue to refer to both types of water supplier.
	Paragraph 8 makes transitional provision relating to the amendments made by sections 39 to 43. Applications accepted by the consenting authority, or authority responsible for any variation to an existing consent, before the reserved powers model is brought into force will continue to be decided by that authority to which the application was made under the Planning Act 2008 or Electricity Act 1989.
	Paragraph 9 makes transitional provision so that:
any application for a marine licence under Part 4 of the 2009 Act which is made before the commencement date continues to be determined by the appropriate licensing authority who was responsible for the application at the date it was made (sub-paragraph (2)). For example, an application made prior to the commencement date for which the MMO is responsible (under powers delegated by the Marine Licensing (Delegation of Functions) Order 2011 as amended) will proceed to be determined by the MMO; and
any appeal against:
a marine licence decision under section 71 of the 2009 Act; or
the issue of any enforcement notice, stop notice and emergency safety notice issued under sections 72, 90, 91, 102, or 104 of that Act respectively, which is made before the commencement date continues to be governed by the appeals regime which applied at the time the appeal was made (sub-paragraph (3)).
	The commencement date is defined in sub-paragraph (4) as the date on which section 46 takes effect).
	Paragraphs 10 and 11 provide that the amendments made by Section 41 of the Act do not apply to applications made under section 95(3)(a) of the Energy Act 2004 before that section comes into effect.