143.The provisions of the Act will come into force on a day that the Secretary of State will specify by order. However, creation of the OLD under section 29 will not be brought into force unless the Secretary of State has made an order under section 22(2), declaring that the IOC have elected London as the host city for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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