General Section 4: Extent, commencement and short title
Section 4(1) provides that the Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
	Section 4(2) is a "permissive extent clause" which enables the power to implement PIL agreements - section 2 (including Schedule 6) and section 3(2) and (3) of the Act - to be extended by Order in Council to the Isle of Man subject to any appropriate modifications.
	Section 4(3) provides that Sections 1 and 3 and Schedules 1 to 5, which are the provisions relating to the implementation of the 1996, 2005 and 2007 Hague Convention, come into force at the end of the transition period.
	Section 4 (4) provides that the rest of this Act, which comprises the provisions relating to the power to implement PIL agreements, comes into force on Royal Assent.
	Section 4(5) sets out the short title of the Act.