74Short title, commencement and extent
(1)This Act may be cited as the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988.
(2)This Act shall come into force as follows–
(a)section 69 and section 72 (so far as relating to Schedule 7) and this section and that Schedule, shall come into force on the day this Act is passed;
(b)sections 36 to 40, 65, 67 and 71; and
section 72 (so far as relating to Schedule 8 and to the entries in Schedule 10 in respect of sections 62(11) to (13) and 151 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987); and
Schedule 8; and
in Schedule 10, those entries;
shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed;
(c)section 72 (so far as relating to the entry in Schedule 10 relating to paragraph (1)(b) of Schedule 16 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987) and that entry shall come into force on 1st April 1989;
(d)the remaining provisions shall come into force on such days as the Secretary of State may, by order made by statutory instrument, appoint and different days may be so appointed for different provisions or for different purposes.
(3)An order under subsection (2) above may make such transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into force by the order.
(4)Subject to subsection (5) below, this Act extends to Scotland only.
(5)So much of sections 3 and 72 and Schedules 2, 9 and 10 as relates to enactments extending to England and Wales, section 4 and Schedule 3 extend also to England and Wales.