General

16Commencement

(1)

This Act comes into force as follows.

(2)

Sections 3 to 7 (but not 6(3)) and 13 and 14 come into force on 5 May 2016 (but see section 17).

(3)

Sections 2, 6(3) and 9 to 12 come into force on 5 May 2016 (and see section 18).

(4)

Sections 8, 15, 17 to 19 and this section come into force on the day after Royal Assent.

(5)

Section 1 comes into force—

(a)

so far as it relates to sections 3 to 7 (but not 6(3)), 13 and 14, on the same date as those provisions,

(b)

so far as it relates to sections 2, 6(3) and 9 to 12, on 5 May 2016,

(c)

so far as it relates to section 8, on the day after Royal Assent.