5.—(1) The following provisions of the Companies Act 2006 (which have the effect of applying the provisions about control of political donations and expenditure to independent election candidates) come into force on 1st October 2008—
(a)in section 362(a), the words “and to independent election candidates”;
(b)in section 363(2)(a), the words “or an independent election candidate to whom”;
(c)section 363(3);
(d)in section 363(4), the words “or independent election candidate” and “independent candidate”;
(e)section 364(3);
(f)in section 365(1)(a) and (b)(i), the words “or an independent election candidate”;
(g)in section 366(1)(a), the words “or to an independent election candidate”;
(h)in section 367(3)(a), the words “or independent election candidates”;
(i)in section 378(2), the words “or to an independent election candidate”.
(2) Section 1284 of the Companies Act 2006 (extension of Companies Acts to Northern Ireland) comes into force on 1st October 2008 so far as necessary for the purposes of the provisions mentioned in paragraph (1).