PART 4GENERAL

9Coming into force

(1)

This section and section 10 come into force on the day after the day on which this Act receives Royal Assent.

(2)

The following provisions come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act receives Royal Assent—

(a)

section 2, except that the references to a “Welsh statutory instrument” in the text inserted by subsections (1) and (2) are to be read as a “statutory instrument” until Part 2A of the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019 comes into force;

(b)

section 4;

(c)

section 7;

(d)

Schedule 1;

(e)

Schedule 2.

(3)

But if paragraph 29(2) of Schedule 8 to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55) (amendment to section 1(1) of the Planning and Energy Act 2008 (c. 21)) is not in force at the end of the period mentioned in subsection (2), paragraph 22(2)(a)(i) of Schedule 1 comes into force when paragraph 29(2) of Schedule 8 to that Act comes into force.

(4)

The other provisions of this Act come into force on a day (or days) appointed by the Welsh Ministers in an order made by statutory instrument.

(5)

An order under subsection (4) may include transitional or saving provision.