Commencement
620.Section 10 (ACAS: prohibition on disclosure of information); section 24 (transitional provision); section 28 (transitional provision: consultation); sections 52 and 53 (power to remove concurrent competition functions of sectoral regulators); section 59 (sunset and review); sections 75 to 78 and Schedule 22 (copyright and rights in performances); sections 92 to 95 (insolvency: protection of essential supplies); section 96 (Royal Charters: requirements for Parliamentary approval); and sections 98 to 104 (equal pay audit and general) came into force on the day of Royal Assent. Other provisions of the Act also came into force on the day Royal Assent but only to the extent it was necessary for them to do so to enable the exercise of a power to make a statutory instrument containing regulations, rules or an order.
621.Part 1 (UK Green Investment Bank); sections 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 22 (provisions in Part 2); section 62 (Osborne Estate); section 64 (Commission for Equality and Human Rights); paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 17 (and section 63 so far as it relates to them); Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 21 (and section 73 so far as it relates to them); and section 97 (Equality Act 2010: caste as an aspect of race) will come into force at the end of the period of 2 months beginning with Royal Assent.
622.The remaining provisions of this Act will come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument. Different days may be appointed for different purposes.