Commentary Final Provisions Section 147: Extent
359.Section 147 provides that the Act extends to the whole of the United Kingdom (subsection (1)), except for section 13 (provisions relating to preferential debts) section 139 (penalties for claims management service providers) and section 140 (the recovery of the expenditure of the Office for Legal Complaints in connection with claims management services), which under subsection (2) have the same extent as the Acts which they amend (for example, the amendments relating to the expenditure of the Office for Legal Complaints extend only to England and Wales, as do the relevant parts of the Legal Services Act 2007 and the Compensation Act 2006).