(1)This Act may be cited as the Charities Act, 1960.
(2)This Act shall extend—
(a)to Scotland and Northern Ireland in so far as it amends the House of Commons Disqualification Act, 1957, or extends the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland; and
(b)to Scotland in so far as Part II of the Seventh Schedule repeals any enactment having any application in Scotland; and
(c)to Northern Ireland in so far as it relates to the amendment of Royal Charters;
but, subject to that, this Act shall not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
(3)The following provisions of this Act shall come into force on the date it is passed, that is to say, section one with the First Schedule, section thirty-eight with the repeals in Part II of the Seventh Schedule, and section forty-seven; but, save as aforesaid, this Act shall not come into force until the beginning of the year nineteen hundred and sixty-one.