6 Short title, commencement and extent.S
(1)This Act may be cited as the Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1997.
(2)Subject to subsections (3) and (4), this Act shall come into force at the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the day on which it is passed.
(3)The repeal in Part I of Schedule 1 relating to section 186 of the principal Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different days may be appointed for different purposes.
(4)An order under subsection (3) may contain such supplementary, incidental, consequential and transitional provisions as the Secretary of State thinks fit.
(5)This Act does not extend to England or Wales or Northern Ireland except (subject to subsection (6)) so far as it affects other enactments so extending.
(6)The repeals in Part II of Schedule 1 extend to Scotland only and those in Part III of that Schedule to England and Wales only.