Policy background Section 3: Extent, commencement and short title
This Act extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland. However, as is clear from the text of the amendments to section 3 of the 2004 Act in section 1, the deemed consent provisions only have practical application in respect of activities carried out in England for the purposes of transplantation. Section 2(2) and (3) may apply in Northern Ireland.
	Apart from section 3, which comes into force on the day that the Act is passed, the provisions in this Act will come into force on the day or days that the Secretary of State appoints through regulations made by statutory instrument.