Article 3 Commencement

The following provisions of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 come into force on the day after the day on which the poll is taken at a parliamentary general election for the first or only time in 2010—

(a)

section 4 (MPs’ salaries);

(b)

section 10 (Offence of providing false or misleading information for allowances claims);

(c)

in Schedule 1 (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority)—

(i)

paragraph 17;

(ii)

paragraph 18(1) with the exception of the full-out words;

(iii)

paragraph 18(2)(a).