Territorial extent and application
Sections 1 and 3 extend to England and Wales and Scotland. Sections 2 and 4 extend to Northern Ireland. Section 5 extends to the whole of the United Kingdom. An amendment or repeal in the Act has the same extent as the provision amended or repealed.
	There is a convention that Westminster will not normally legislate with regard to matters that are within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly without the consent of the legislature concerned.