Commencement
- Section 44 makes provision about the coming into force of the provisions of the Act. The commentary on individual sections and Schedules includes an explanation of the effect of this section.
- The Act provides for Part 10 of the Act (Final provisions) and certain powers enabling the making of regulations to come into force on the day of Royal Assent, as well as section 38 (UK Green Investment Bank: transitional provision) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 (as enabled by parts of section 14 coming into force on Royal Assent).
- The Act provides for the following provisions to come into force two months after the day on which this Bill became an Act:
- Section 14 (business impact target: extension to provisions made by regulators etc) (so far as not already in force under subsection(1)) and Schedule 2 (other than paragraph 2 which comes into force on Royal Assent);
- Section 18 (application of regulators' principles and code: removal of restrictions);
- Section 24 (public sector apprenticeship targets);
- Section 31 (disclosure of HMRC information in connection with non-domestic rating);
- Section 32 (alteration of non-domestic rating lists);
- Sections 34 and 35 (industrial development).
- The provisions on late payment of insurance claims come into force on the day one year after the Act is passed.
- Section 36 (UK Government Investments Limited) and Part 9 (Public sector payments: restrictions on exit payments) come into force on such day or days as the Treasury may by regulations appoint.
- The remaining provisions of this Act will come into force on such day or days as the Secretary of State may by regulations appoint.
- Regulations made under this section may appoint different days for different purposes or different areas.
