Citation and commencement
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Finance) Order 1999.
(2) Article 15 of this Order shall come into force on the day following the date of making of this Order but only for the purpose of enabling the granting of credits to take effect from a date not earlier than 1st April 1999.
(3) Articles 16 to 19 of this Order shall come into force on the day following the date of making of this Order but only for the purpose of enabling the Treasury or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State to make or give a direction, designation or specification to take effect from a date not earlier than 1st April 1999.
(4) This Order, so far as not then in force, shall come into force on 1st April 1999(1), except as provided in the following paragraph of this article.
(5) The provisions of this Order specified in column 1 of the following Table(2) shall come into force on the date when the provision of the 1998 Act specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 comes into force.
| Provision of Order | Provision of 1998 Act |
|---|---|
| Article 5 | Section 44 (other than subsection (1)(c)) |
| Article 6 | Section 21(7) |
| Article 7 | Section 64(4) |
| Articles 10 and 11 | Section 65 |
| Article 21 | Section 69 |
| Article 22 | Section 53 |
| Article 23 | Section 120 |
| Article 24 | Section 121 |
This is the date when, in terms of article 2(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3178), section 64(1) of the 1998 Act, which establishes the Scottish Consolidated Fund, comes into force.
These are provisions which relate to provisions of the 1998 Act which come into force on dates after 1st April 1999. In terms of article 2 of the Scotland Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1998, sections 21(7), 44 (other than subsection (1)(c)) and 69 come into force on 6th May 1999, sections 53, 64(4), 65 and 121 come into force on 1st July 1999 and section 120 comes into force on 1st April 2000.