80.Section 15 of the Act deals with when the Act’s provisions come into effect as a matter of law. It provides for all of the provisions to come into effect on the day after the Bill for the Act receives Royal Assent. That means all of the Act’s provisions came into effect on 23 November 2024. The process by which a Bill becomes an Act of the Scottish Parliament is set out in section 28 of the Scotland Act 1998.
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