4.—(1) The following provisions of the 1998 Act shall come into force on 1st December 1998–
(a)sections 2 and 3 (sex offender orders);
(b)section 4 (appeals against orders), so far as relating to a sex offender order;
(c)section 16 (removal of truants to designated places etc.);
(d)section 20 (sex offender orders);
(e)section 21 (procedural provisions with respect to orders), but only for the purposes of sex offender orders made under section 20 of the 1998 Act and orders made under section 20(4)(a) of that Act;
(f)in section 22 (offences in connection with breach of order), subsections (6) and (7) and, for the purposes of their application to an order under section 20(4)(a) of the 1998 Act and to a sex offender order made under section 20 of that Act, subsections (1) to (5);
(g)section 23 (anti-social behaviour as ground of eviction);
(h)section 24 (noise-making equipment: police power of seizure);
(i)sections 25 to 27 (powers to require removal of masks etc; retention and disposal of things seized; power of arrest for failure to comply with requirement);
(j)Schedule 1 (Schedule 2A to the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982(1)); and
(k)paragraph 36 of Schedule 8.
(2) The following provisions of the 1998 Act shall come into force on 4th January 1999 for the purpose of sending any person for trial under section 51 of that Act from any area specified in Schedule 2 to this Order–
(a)section 51 and, to the extent that it is not already in force, section 52 (no committal proceedings for indictable-only offences etc.);
(b)Schedule 3, to the extent that it is not already in force;
(c)paragraphs 3, 5(1)(a) and (2), 8, 12, 28, 29, 37, 40(2), 44, 45, 48, 49, 52(2), 63 to 67, 93 and 125(a), 126, 127(a), 128 and 129 of Schedule 8; and
(d)in Schedule 10, the entries relating to sections 125 and 126 of the 1980 Act.