Summary and Background Territorial extent and application
101.Section 96 sets out the territorial extent of the Act.
102.The majority of the Act’s provisions extend to England and Wales only, but certain provisions also extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland or both. Amendments of Acts have the same extent as the provisions they amend, except for certain amendments of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 in section 79(9) and paragraph 1 of Schedule 15 of the Act which extend to England and Wales only (see section 96(4)). Amendments of the Armed Forces Act 2006 or of any provision applied by the Armed Forces Act 2006 extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (see section 96(2 and (3)).
103.The Act addresses non-devolved and devolved matters.