Article 2 Commencement of section51 and schedule, paragraph3(a) and (c)

Subject to the condition in paragraph (2), section 51 (work orders) of, and paragraph 3(a) and (c) (modification of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968^f1) of the schedule to, the 2007 Act, in so far as not already commenced, come into force on 1st April 2011.

The condition is that those provisions are only in force for the purposes of making a work order where one or more of the alleged offences in relation to which the work order is to be made was committed in a local authority area where arrangements have been made by that local authority for the supervision of any such work order.