Supplementary provisions

17 Short title, commencement and extent.

1

This Act may be cited as the British Steel Act 1988.

2

Sections 2 and 15(1) and this section shall come into force on the day on which this Act is passed.

3

The remaining provisions of this Act (except those specified in subsection (4)) shall come into force on the appointed day.

4

Part II of Schedule 2, and section 16(3) so far as relating thereto, shall come into force on the dissolution of the Corporation.

5

With the exception of the provisions mentioned in subsection (6), this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.

6

Those provisions are—

a

section 1 and Schedule 1;

b

sections 13 and 15;

c

section 16(2);

d

section 16(3) and Schedule 2 so far as they repeal any enactment extending to Northern Ireland;

e

section 16(4) and Schedule 3; and

f

this section.