Commencement of provisions of Access to Justice Act 1999

3.  The following provisions of the Act come into force on 2nd April 2001:

(a) in Part I:

(i) sections 12 to 18 and Schedule 3 (Criminal Defence Service); and

(ii) to the extent that they are not already in force, section 24 and Schedule 4 (amendments consequential on Part I); and

(b) in Part VII, so far as they have not already been effected, the repeals and revocations in Part I of Schedule 15 and, so far as it relates to those repeals and revocations, section 106.