495.This Act has been drafted so that the provisions will come into force as follows:
Part 1 (carbon target and budgeting), Part 2 (the Committee on Climate Change) and Part 6 (general supplementary provisions) come into force on Royal Assent;
section 71(1) and Schedule 5 (waste reduction schemes) come into force in accordance with sections 72 to 75 (which make provision about piloting such schemes);
section 81 (climate change measures reports in Wales) comes into force on a day to be appointed by the Welsh Ministers;
section 82 (repeal of previous reporting provision) comes into force on 1st January 2009 (so that the reporting requirements under section 2 of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 (c.19) apply in 2008);
the rest of the Act comes into force two months after Royal Assent.