Part 3: Final provisions Section 51: Commencement and transitional provision
This section sets out when the measures in the Act will come into force.
	Subsection (1) states that Part 3, and sections 11, 13(3), and paragraphs 12 to 14 of Schedule 2 and section 18 so far as relating to those paragraphs, come into force on the day the Act is passed.
	Subsection (2) enables most of the provisions in Section 13, and certain provisions in Schedule 2, which allow magistrates' court sentencing powers to be varied, to commence automatically upon Royal Assent in certain circumstances. Automatic commencement would take place if provisions to extend those sentencing powers has commenced before the Act receives Royal Assent. Alternatively, provisions increasing magistrates’ court sentencing powers are commenced later, then the remainder of the Section can be brought into force after that date by regulations.
	Subsection (3) sets out the specific provisions that will come into force two months after the Act passes.
	With the exception of the provisions in subsection (2), which come into force two months after the Act passes, the remainder of the sections will come into force by means of commencement regulations made by the Lord Chancellor, as set out in subsections (4) to (6).