Supplementary

21 Short title and commencement

1

This Act may be cited as the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Act 2002.

2

This Act comes into force as follows—

a

this section and sections 1 and 20 and the schedule shall come into force the day after the date of Royal Assent; and

b

the remainder of this Act shall come into force at the end of the period of six months beginning with the date of Royal Assent.