Section 8 Short title, commencement and extent.

This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988.

This Act, except those provisions that may be brought into force in accordance with subsection (3) below, shall come into force at the end of the period of six months beginning with the day on which it is passed.

F1Paragraphs 15 to 20 of Schedule 2 to this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different days may be so appointed for different provisions and for different purposes.

An order under subsection (3) above bringing any provision of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act (wholly or partly) into force may contain such transitional provisions and savings (whether or not involving the modification of any provision contained in an Act or in subordinate legislation within the meaning of the M1Interpretation Act 1978) as appear to the Secretary of State necessary or expedient in connection with that provision.

This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland except so far as it affects other enactments extending to Northern Ireland.