Commencement
Section 33: Commencement and duration
- Section 33 provides for Part 1 (Organising Committee financial assistance and annual reporting), the duty on the Organising Committee to publish guidance about the prohibition on unauthorised association with the Games (section 8), Part 5 (final provisions) and any power to make regulations to come into force on the day the Act is passed; under subsection (2) the remaining provisions come into force two months after this date.
- Subsections (3) and (4) set out when some of the Act’s provisions will cease to have effect. Section 3(1) to (3) and subsection (6)(a), section 4 and section 5 and Schedule 1 (which prohibit unauthorised association and provide for relevant exceptions) will cease to have effect on 1 January 2023. This is when it is anticipated that all events associated with the Games will have taken place and the Organising Committee will be, or will shortly be wound up.
- Subsection (4) provides that the ticketing touting provisions (sections 10 to 12) and Schedule 2 will cease to have effect the day after the Games ends because tickets will no longer be valid after this point.
Section 34: Short title
- This Act may be cited as the Birmingham Commonwealth Games Act 2020.
