Territorial extent and application
Section 40 sets out the territorial extent of the Act; that is the legal jurisdictions of which the provisions in the Act are intended to form part of the law.
	The provisions of the Act extend to the whole of the UK except for section 25(1) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 which extend to England and Wales and Scotland, and section 25(2) which extends to Northern Ireland only. Where the Act amends or repeals a provision the extent will be the same as the enactment that is amended or repealed. The Act does not extend to any of the Crown Dependencies or Overseas Territories.
	The UK Parliament does not normally legislate with regard to matters that are within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament, Senedd Cymru or the Northern Ireland Assembly without the consent of the legislature concerned. It is also the practice of the Government to seek the consent of the devolved legislatures for provisions which would alter the competence of those legislatures or the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
	The provisions for which the Government will seek legislative consent are set out in full in Annex A. These include, for example:
Provisions in Parts 1 and 2 of the Act which legislate in areas of devolved legislative competence or alter the competence of the devolved administrations.
Provisions in Part 3 of the Act which relate to general implementation, insofar as these provisions operate in relation to matters which fall within the legislative competence of the devolved legislatures. This includes sections 31 and 33 which, respectively, confer powers on the devolved administrations to make regulations to implement the TCA and for the purposes of implementing a decision to suspend, terminate, or resume, in whole or in part, the TCA. Part 2 of Schedule 5 of the Act defines areas of devolved competence, in respect of which these powers are conferred on Ministers in the devolved administrations.