Section 7 adds certain offences involving or connected with a threat to national security to the Sentence for Offenders of Particular Concern (SOPC) Schedule so that going forward these offenders receive a SOPC as a minimum.
	Sections 8 and 9 extends the measures in section 7 to equivalent sentences in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.
	Section 10 introduces a corresponding provision under service law to mirror the reforms made by Section 7 of this Act.
	Schedule 3 makes consequential amendments to corresponding provision under service law to mirror the new provisions on SOPC made by Section 7 of this Act.
Overview of the Act Part 1: Sentencing Offenders of particular concern