Commencement2

1

Apart from the provisions mentioned in paragraph (2), the 2006 Act comes into force on 1st October 2007.

2

Those provisions are section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the 2006 Act, so far as they insert into the Public Order Act 19862 the following provisions—

a

section 29B(3) (power to arrest person suspected of offence under that section);

b

section 29H(2) (power of courts in Scotland to authorise entry and search); and

c

section 29I(2)(b) and (4) (power of courts in Scotland to order forfeiture).