134Short title and commencement
(1)This Act may be cited as the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.
(2)Sections 103, 109, 132 and 133 and this section come into force on Royal Assent.
(3)Sections 14 to 30 and schedules 5, 6 and 7 cease to have effect 5 years after the date on which those sections and schedules (or the last of them) come into force.
(4)But the Scottish Ministers may by order extend, or (on one or more occasion) further extend, the period for which those sections and schedules have effect.
(5)An order made under subsection (4)—
(a)must be made before the end of the period referred to in that subsection, and
(b)has the effect of extending, or further extending, that period for the period of 5 years beginning with the day the order is made.
(6)Where, by virtue of subsection (3) (or that subsection read with subsection (4)) sections 14 to 30 and schedules 5 to 7 cease to have effect, that repeal does not affect any order made under section 14 or 17(1).
(7)The remaining provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by order appoint.
(8)An order bringing into force section 3, 130 or 131 or schedule 2 or 3 may not be made before the expiry of the period of 12 months beginning with Royal Assent.