Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

Sections 14 and 15 and Schedule 1 (reports of courts and other bodies protected by privilege), together with section 17 (interpretation) and section 16 and Schedule 2 (repeals) so far as they apply to those provisions, were brought into force on 1st April 1999 by S.I. 1999/817. That Order applied to Scotland, England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

The remaining provisions of the Act (with the exception of the repeal of paragraph 3 of Schedule 20 to the Broadcasting Act 1990) were brought into force on 28th February 2000 by S.I. 2000/222 in respect of England and Wales only.

Section 19(1) and (2) of the Act lists those provisions which came into force on Royal Assent or two months thereafter.