This Order brings into force on 1st April 2012 sections 1 to 7, 14 to 21 and section 23 of, and the schedule to, the Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). It brings into force on 1st October 2012 those provisions of the 2011 Act which are not at that date already in force.

The Bill for the 2011 Act received Royal Assent on 31st March 2011. Sections 22, 24, 25 and 26 came into force on Royal Assent.