This Section sets out the manner in which provisions in the Act will be commenced.
	Subsections (1) and (2) set out which provisions of this Act come into force on Royal Assent and 2 months after Royal Assent respectively.
	In respect of all other provisions, subsection (3) allows the Secretary of State to make regulations setting out the days such provisions come into force.
	Subsection (4) sets out that regulations made under subsection (3) may make different provision for different purposes.
	Subsection (5) requires the Secretary of State, when deciding whether and when to make regulations under subsection (3) to bring section 68 (industrial action ballots: turnout threshold) into force, to have regard to the effects, or expected effects, of any provision made after this Act that permit industrial action ballots to be conducted via non-postal balloting on the proportion of votes in any such ballot.
	Subsection (6) sets out that the Secretary of State may not make regulation under subsection (3) to bring section 68 (industrial action ballots: turnout threshold) into effect, unless the Secretary of State has laid before Parliament a statement as to how the Secretary of State has had regard to the duty in subsection (5).
	Subsection (7) defines an "industrial action ballot", as cited in subsection (5), to mean a ballot for the purposes of section 226 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (ballots on industrial action).
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