The Scotland Act 2016 (Commencement No. 6) Regulations 2017

Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 608 (C. 54)

Constitutional Law

Devolution, Scotland

The Scotland Act 2016 (Commencement No. 6) Regulations 2017

Made

26th April 2017

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 72(4) of the Scotland Act 2016(1).

Citation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Scotland Act 2016 (Commencement No. 6) Regulations 2017.

Provisions coming into force on 18th May 2017

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the following provisions of Part 1 of the Scotland Act 2016 (constitutional arrangements) come into force on 18th May 2017—

(a) section 3 (elections);

(b) section 4 (power to make provision about elections);

(c) section 5 (timing of elections);

(d) section 6 (electoral registration: the digital service);

(e) section 7 (expenditure in connection with elections);

(f) section 8 (review of electoral boundaries by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland);

(g) section 9 (functions exercisable within devolved competence: elections);

(h) section 10 (minor and consequential amendments: elections etc);

(i) section 11 (super-majority requirement for certain legislation); and

(j) section 12 (scope to modify the Scotland Act 1998).

(2) Section 9 comes into force immediately after sections 3 to 8 and 10 to 12.

David Mundell

Secretary of State

Scotland Office

26th April 2017

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring into force provisions in Part 1 of the Scotland Act 2016 which relate to elections and legislation by the Scottish Parliament.

These commencement Regulations are the sixth to be made in respect of commencement of the Scotland Act 2016.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT REGULATIONS

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The following provisions of the Scotland Act 2016 have been brought into force by commencement Regulations made before the date of these Regulations:

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
Section 13	30th November 2016	2016/1161
Section 20	1st April 2017	2016/1178
Section 21	1st April 2017	2016/1178
Section 22 (partially)	5th September 2016	2016/759
Section 22 (so far as not already in force)	17th May 2017	2017/455
Section 23(3) and subsection (1) of that section in so far as it relates to subsection (3)	5th September 2016	2016/759
Section 23(1) for remaining purposes, subsections (2) and (4) and subsection (5) for the purpose of making regulations	17th May 2017	2017/455
Section 23(5) (so far as not already in force)	1st April 2020	2017/455
Section 24	5th September 2016	2016/759
Section 25	1st April 2017	2016/759
Section 26	5th September 2016	2016/759
Sections 28 to 35	5th September 2016	2016/759
Section 62	1st April 2017	2017/300
Section 65	18th August 2016	2016/759
Section 67	1st April 2017	2016/1178

(1)

2016 c.11.