Legalize / United Kingdom / Scotland / Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

The Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2017

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2017-03-23

State In force

Jurisdiction Scotland

Department Queen's Printer for Scotland

Source legislation.gov.uk

PDF Download

articles Not indexed

Reform history JSON API

Made: 23rd March 2017

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 27th March 2017

Coming into force: 24th April 2017

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 45(2) and (3) of the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 24th April 2017.

Appointed day

2

24th April 2017 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016—

(a) section 44 (consequential modifications), for the purpose of bringing into force paragraph 6(1) and (2)(c) of the schedule; and

(b) paragraph 6(1) and (2)(c) of the schedule (modification of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014[^f00002]).

Signed

AILEEN CAMPBELL — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 23rd March 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations bring into force certain provisions of the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 (“the Act”) on 24th April 2017. Regulation 2 brings into force paragraph 6(1) and (2)(c) of the schedule of the Act (which makes amendments to Part 1 of the schedule of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014). Section 44 of the Act is also brought into force for the purpose of giving effect to paragraph 6(1) and (2)(c) of the schedule.

The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 9th March 2016. Sections 41 to 43, 45 and 46 came into force on the following day.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2016 asp 9.

[^f00002]: 2014 asp 9.

Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.

This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence. legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.