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Provisions coming into force on 1 April 2006

5.—(1) Save as provided for in paragraph (2) below, and except as provided for in paragraph (3) below, the provisions of the Act, insofar as they are not already in force, come into force on 1 April 2006.

(2) For the purposes of the financial year ending 31 March 2006—

(a)subject to sub-paragraph (b) below and despite the coming into force of section 39 and Schedule 7, the provisions of the Acts referred to in the first column of the Table in Schedule 2 to this Order continue to have effect as if those provisions had not been repealed by the Act, and

(b)those provisions continue to have effect in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above subject to the modifications specified in the second column of the Table in Schedule 2 to this Order.

(3) The following provisions do not come into force on 1 April 2006—

(a)section 20, and

(b)paragraph 15(5) of Schedule 1.