General Section 48: Commencement
207.Section 48 contains provisions relating to the coming into force of the Act. Section 2 (Entering United Kingdom without passport, &c.) and section 35 (Deportation or removal: co-operation) will come into force two months after Royal Assent. Section 32 (Suspected international terrorist: bail) will apply to any such determinations made two months after Royal Assent or later. Subsection (3) provides that the remaining provisions come into force on such dates as the Secretary of State (or the Lord Chancellor in the case of section 26 (Unification of appeal system) or Schedule 1 or 2) appoints.
208.Orders under subsection (3) may make transitional provisions and subsections (4) and (5) sets out specific transitional provision powers in relation to the commencement of section 26.