Part 7: General Section 186: Commencement
This section provides that Part 7 of the Act come into force on the day that this Act is passed. These are the general provisions (dealing with consequential amendments, regulations, extent, commencement and the Act’s title).
	Subsection (2) provides that section 161(2), which relates to pharmaceutical services, comes into force when Welsh Ministers appoint so by regulations.
	Section 171 and Schedule 17 (storage of gametes and embryos) to come into force on 1 July 2022. While Section 172 and Schedule 18 (advertising of less healthy food and drink) come into force 28 June 2022. Section 179 will come into force on 28 July 2022.
	The remaining provisions of the Act come into force on the day or days specified by the Secretary of State in regulations. There is a power to make regulations which include transitional or saving provisions in connection with the coming into force of any provision of the Act. The Welsh Ministers also have a power to make regulations to make transitional or saving provision in respect of section 161(2).