Territorial Extent and Application Territorial application: Northern Ireland
20.Many of the provisions of the Act on police powers on fingerprinting and DNA (sections 5(2), 8 to 13, 17 to 23), the provisions relating to the private security industry (sections 42 to 44) and those relating to compensation for victims of overseas terrorism (sections 47 to 54) extend to Northern Ireland and relate to excepted matters.
21.The Act did not require a Legislative Consent Motion to be passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly Government.