Overview of the Act Part 1 and the Schedule: the Uncrc Requirements Section 1 and the schedule: Meaning of “the UNCRC requirements” and related expressions
7.The rights and obligations that the Act’s later Parts deal with are labelled as “the UNCRC requirements” by section 1. They are derived from the Convention and the 2 optional protocols ratified by the United Kingdom. The text of those parts of the Convention and its optional protocols that are comprehended by the label “the UNCRC requirements” is set out in the schedule (the content of which may be changed in future by regulations under section 3).
8.In public international law, the Convention and its optional protocols have effect in relation to the United Kingdom subject to any reservations, objections or interpretative declarations made by the United Kingdom. Section 1(3) provides that, for the Act’s purposes, the UNCRC requirements are to have effect subject to the same reservations, objections and interpretative declarations as apply, in public international law, to the treaty obligations of the United Kingdom from which the UNCRC requirements are derived.