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GeneralS

4Ancillary provisionS

(1)The Scottish Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument make such incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in consequence of, or for giving full effect to, any provision of this Act.

(2)An order under subsection (1) may modify any enactment (including this Act).

(3)An order under subsection (1) is not to be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.

5Short title and commencementS

(1)This Act may be cited as the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2011.

(2)This Act, except section 4 and this section, comes into force three months after the day on which the Bill for this Act receives Royal Assent.