Summary and Background Provisions in the Act that extend to Northern Ireland
104.The following provisions change the law as it operates in Northern Ireland and relate to excepted or reserved matters:
	the increase in the maximum penalty for the possession of explosive substances, weapons training for terrorist purposes and training for terrorism to life imprisonment (section 1);
	the provision relating to the offence of making improper use of a public electronic communications network (section 51);
	the provision allowing appeals to move directly from the Upper Tribunal and the Special Immigration Appeals Commission to the Supreme Court (sections 64 and 66);
	the amendment of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 allowing the President of the Supreme Court to make representations to Parliament (section 81);
	the amendment of that Act relating to the circumstances in which a judge of the Supreme Court or a senior territorial judge can become a member of the supplementary panel (section 82);
	the amendments of the Armed Forces Act 2006 and of any other provision as it is applied by that Act (for example, provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003) and any amendment which applies in relation to a service court (see the amendment of section 82A of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 made by section 15 and the provisions in section 76 and paragraph 2 of Schedule 15 in so far as they apply to such courts).
105.The following provisions change the law as it operates in Northern Ireland but are consequential on other provisions in the Act which change the law in England and Wales:
	the amendments of Schedule 1 to the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 relating to the transfer of prisoners within the British Isles (paragraph 12 of Schedule 1) arising from the new sentence and release provisions for certain offenders of particular concern;
	the amendment of section 39 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 relating to the service of summons etc in Scotland and Northern Ireland (paragraph 1 of Schedule 11) which is consequential on the provisions enabling trial by a single justice on the papers.
106.Section 26 of the Act (corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers and privileges) extends to Northern Ireland and relates to both transferred and reserved matters. The provision will only have effect  in Northern Ireland in relation to reserved matters (in respect of officers of the Ministry of Defence Police) until the conferral of police powers on National Crime Agency Officers in Northern Ireland takes place, following the Northern Ireland Assembly giving its consent to that on 3 February 2015 (see section 10(1)(a) of, and paragraph 11(1)(c) of Schedule 5 to, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and the power to extend paragraph 11(1)(c) to Northern Ireland in Schedule 24 to that Act). Section 26 was enacted with the agreement of the Northern Ireland Executive.
107.There are other provisions which make amendments to provisions extending to Northern Ireland but where the amendment preserves, or does not materially affect, the law as it operates there.