Commencement of the Act

3.  Subject to article 4, 6th April 2011 is the day appointed for the following provisions of the Act to come into force:—

(a)Part 2 and the associated schedules 2, 3 and 4 (which make provision about the scrutiny of subordinate legislation by the Scottish Parliament);

(b)Part 4 (which makes provision about orders subject to special parliamentary procedure);

(c)Part 5 (which makes provision about the laying of certain documents before the Scottish Parliament); and

(d)section 55(3) (which revokes articles 1 to 3 and 4(6) of the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Statutory Instruments) Order 1999(1).