Part III General

P130 Short title, commencement and extent.

1

This Act may be cited as the Local Government Act 1992.

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Sections 1 to 7 above and, in Part I of Schedule 4 to this Act, the repeal in the 1982 Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

3

The following provisions of this Act, that is to say—

a

sections 8 to 11, Schedule 1 and, in Part I of Schedule 4, the repeals in the 1980 Act and the 1988 Act; and

b

section 24, Schedule 3 and Part II of Schedule 4,

shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed under this subsection for different provisions and for different purposes.

4

The following provisions of this Act do not extend to Scotland, that is to say—

a

sections 4 and 7;

b

Part II, apart from the amendments contained in paragraphs 11 and 12 of Schedule 2 and in paragraphs 21 and 22 of Schedule 3; and

c

F2Part II of Schedule 4, apart from so much of that Part as makes a repeal in the M1House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975.

5

Except for the purposes of—

a

the amendments contained in paragraphs 11 and 12 of Schedule 2 and in paragraph 21 of Schedule 3; and

b

so much of Part II of Schedule 4 as makes a repeal in the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975,

this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.