Territorial Extent
17.Except for section 6 (which concerns HM Armed Forces and is therefore reserved) the subject matter of the Act is a devolved matter as regards Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. However as the 1970 Act extends to England, Wales and Scotland, the Act extends to all three territories, for which purpose:
	sections 1 to 4 apply to Wales and make substantive changes to the law in Wales. Accordingly, an appropriate legislative consent motion was passed in the National Assembly for Wales on 6 November 2012;
	by contrast, although the Act extends to Scotland, it does not change the law of Scotland in any substantive manner, and therefore does not contain any provisions falling within the terms of the Sewel Convention.