Citation

1. This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2010.

Commencement

2. The following provisions of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 come into force on 29th March 2010—

(a) section 5 (MPs’ allowances scheme);

(b) section 6 (Dealing with claims under the scheme).

3. 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).