3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and articles 4 and 5 below, the following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 1st April 2001—
(a)sections 2, 12, 13, and 29, and Schedule 1, so far as they are not brought into force by article 2 above; and
(b)sections 1, 3, 5 to 9, 14, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 26, and Schedule 2.
(2) Subsections (7) to (12) of the new section 101A inserted in the Government of Wales Act 1998 by paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 to the Act shall not come into force by virtue of this Order.