Application of Part VN.I.
12.—(1) The provisions of this Part, except this Article, shall come into force in accordance with the following provisions of this Article.
(2) A council may resolve that the provisions of this Part which are mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph (3) are to apply to its district; and if a council does so resolve, the provisions specified in the resolution shall come into force in its district on the day specified in that behalf in the resolution (which must not be before the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which the resolution is passed).
(3) The provisions that may be specified in a resolution under paragraph (2) are—
(a)Articles 13, 15 and 16; or
(b)Articles 14 to 16; or
(c)Articles 13 to 16.
(4) A resolution which provides that Article 14 is to apply to the district of a council need not provide that it shall apply to all the descriptions of persons specified in paragraph (1) of that Article; and if such a resolution does not provide that Article 14 is to apply to persons of all of those descriptions, the reference in paragraph (2) to the coming into force of provisions specified in the resolution shall be construed, in its application to Article 14 and to Article 15 so far as it has effect for the purposes of Article 14, as a reference to the coming into force of those Articles only in relation to persons of the description or descriptions specified in the resolution.
(5) If a resolution provides for the coming into force of Article 14 in relation to persons of more than one of the descriptions specified in paragraph (1) of that Article, it may provide that that Article, and Article 15 so far as it has effect for the purposes of that Article, shall come into force on different days in relation to persons of each of the descriptions specified in the resolution.
(6) A council shall publish notice that it has passed a resolution under this Article in two consecutive weeks in one or more newspapers circulating in its district.
(7) The first publication shall not be later than 28 days before the day specified in the resolution for the coming into force of the provisions specified in it in the council's district.
(8) The notice shall state which provisions are to come into force in that district.
(9) The notice shall also—
(a)if the resolution provides for the coming into force of Article 13, explain that that Article applies to persons carrying on the practice of acupuncture; and
(b)if it provides for the coming into force of Article 14, specify the descriptions of persons in relation to whom that Article is to come into force.
(10) Any such notice shall state the general effect, in relation to persons to whom the provisions specified in the resolution will apply, of the coming into force of those provisions.