Commentary on provisions of the Act Section 20: Extension to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
This section enables the Secretary of State to make regulations (subject to the affirmative procedure) to extend the provisions made by sections 16 to 19 to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Such regulations may amend, repeal or revoke any enactment, including provisions in the Illegal Migration Act.
	This meets the policy intention that the powers relating to the accommodation, transfer, information sharing and enforcement with respect to unaccompanied children in scope of the duty to make arrangements for removal will be applied to the whole of the UK. These provisions build on the existing burden sharing provisions in respect of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the 2016 Act.