Section 383: Commencement
767.This section provides for certain sections to come into effect on Royal Assent (when, that is, the Act becomes an Act). The sections are:
Section 359, which creates a pardon for persons executed for particular offences committed between the 4th August 1914 and the 11th November 1918;
section 373, which provides how orders, regulations and rules under the Act are to be made;
section 382, which provides for the renewal and expiry of the SDAs and the Act (the repeal of section 1 of the Armed Forces Act 2001, which currently governs the renewal and repeal of the Service Discipline Acts, is accordingly repealed at the same time);
section 384, which provides for the Act to extend to the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the British overseas territories; and
section 386, which gives the Act its short title – the Armed Forces Act 2006.
768.The section also provides for the Secretary of State to bring into force the other provisions of the Act on days appointed by order. These commencement orders are statutory instruments but are not subject to parliamentary procedure.