(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force on 1st October 2006 and 1st January 2007 provisions of Part 2 of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (“the Act”) specified in column 1 of each of the two Schedules to the Order respectively.
Some of those provisions of the Act are being commenced for the particular purpose or purposes specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of each of the two Schedules to the Order. Where no particular purpose is specified, a provision is being commenced for all purposes. The purposes relate to the making of regulations under the Act and under provisions in existing legislation amended by the Act, or to commence only part of an amendment.
Sections 61 to 63 of the Act came into force on Royal Assent. The Act received Royal Assent on 1st August 2006.
The Order also makes transitional provision for the submission of marriage notices for marriages which are to take place where section 37 of the Act alters registration district boundaries (article 4).
A full Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no cost on business