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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints days for provisions of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the Act”) to come into force.

Article 2 appoints 22nd September 2014 as the day on which the provisions of Parts 1 to 3 of the Act, other than those which have already come into force or which will come into force in accordance with article 3, come into force. Article 3 appoints 1st April 2015 as the day on which sections 65 and 71(1) to (4) and (6) of the Act come into force.

The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 1st April 2014. Sections 1(3) to (16), 5, 49, 68 to 70, 72 and 73 came into force the following day.