Commencement

3.  The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1st October 2004–

(a)sections 29 to 32, 37 and 38;

(b)in Schedule 1 to the Act (minor and consequential amendments), paragraphs 8 to 12, 16 to 18, 20 and 21, 24 and 25, 31, 42(1), (2) and (4) and 43 (which contain amendments connected with sections 29 to 32);

(c)in Schedule 2 to the Act (repeals), the entries relating to sections 146, 148, 151(1), 152, and 155 of the 1992 Act and section 17 of the Employment Relations Act 1999(1) (which entries contain repeals connected with sections 29 to 32).