The following provisions of the 1993 Act shall come into force on the first commencement date–

• section 26(9),

• so much of sections 75, 88, 91, 99 and 108 as confers on the Secretary of State a power to make orders, regulations or declarations,

• section 98,

• section 100,

• section 187(1) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 4, 7 and 27 of Schedule 21, and

• section 187(2) in so far as it relates to the repeals in Schedule 22 of section 41(1) of the Housing Act 19885 and paragraph 51 in Schedule 11 to the Local Government and Housing Act 19896.