Territorial extent and application Legislative Consent Motions
Under the terms of the Sewel Convention, the UK Parliament will 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.
	In the view of the UK Government, the Act will engage the Sewel Convention in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as certain areas of judicial policy are devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Judicial pensions policy is also devolved/transferred in Northern Ireland in relation to certain devolved judicial offices and falls within devolved competence of Scotland where the judicial pension scheme is not reserved to Westminster. Legislative consent has therefore been obtained from all three devolved legislatures in relation to these matters.
	The Act makes provision for public service pension schemes in Scotland (for teachers, NHS workers, firefighters, police, and local government workers) where the Scottish Ministers have executive but not legislative competence.
	The Act makes provision for the firefighters’ pension scheme in Wales where Welsh Ministers have executive competence, however Senedd Cymru does not have legislative competence.
	The Act makes provision for pensions for the armed forces and members of the UK civil service in respect of Northern Ireland, as legislative competence for these pension schemes sits with the UK Parliament. The Act also makes provision for public service pension schemes in Northern Ireland (for civil servants in the Northern Ireland civil service, teachers, NHS workers, firefighters, police and local government workers) where the Northern Ireland Assembly has legislative competence. Legislative consent has therefore been obtained from the Northern Ireland Assembly in relation to these matters.
	The consent of the Scottish Parliament, Senedd Cymru or the Northern Ireland Assembly has been obtained for those amendments relating to matters within the legislative competence of the relevant devolved legislature(s).
	See the table in Annex A for a summary of the position regarding territorial extent and application.