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Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

Section 178: Commencement

462.This section provides for commencement (subsections (1)to (8)). Subsection (9) enables provisions of the Act to be piloted, for example in specified police force areas, before being rolled out country wideSubsection (10)confers on the Secretary of State a free standing order-making power (that is, separate from the power to make commencement orders) to make transitional or saving provisions connected with the coming into force of any provision in the Act. The order-making power is not subject to any parliamentary procedure. Subsection (11) confers a similar power on the Scottish Ministers

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