Part 6: Supplementary
Section 57: Ancillary provision
138.This section enables the Scottish Ministers by order to make incidental and other ancillary provision for the purposes of the Act or in consequence of it. The power could, for example, be used to make consequential amendments to other legislation which are required because of the replacement of the 1959 Act by the Act.
Section 58: Modification of enactments
139.This section introduces schedule 6, which makes amendments to other legislation as a result of the Act.
Section 59: Commencement and short title
140.Under subsection (1) the provisions of the Act, apart from those specified (which relate to powers to make orders), come into force on a date or dates appointed by the Scottish Ministers.