2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and Schedule 2, the provisions of the 2003 Act specified in Schedule 1 shall come into force on 4th April 2005.
(2) In so far as they apply where a person aged 16 or 17 is convicted of an offence, sections 177 and 179 to 180 of and Schedules 8 and 9 to the 2003 Act (community orders) shall come into force on 4th April 2007.