{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-2006/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-2006/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/26",
  "legislation_title": "Commons Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-2006",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "(1) The preceding provisions of this Act, except section 9 and Schedule 1 and sections 54 and 55, come into force in accordance with provision made by order by the appropriate national authority.\n(2) Sections 54 and 55 come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 56(1) power partly exercised: 1.10.2006 appointed for specified provisions by {S.I. 2006/2504}, art. 2 (with art. 3); different dates appointed for specified provisions by {S.I. 2007/456}, arts. 2, 3 (with art. 4); different dates appointed for specified provisions by {S.I. 2007/2386}, arts. 2, 3 (with art. 4); 1.10.2007 appointed for specified provisions by {S.I. 2007/2584}, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/26/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:20.796556+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}