Territorial extent and application
Section 2 covers the territorial extent of the Act.
	The provisions of this Act extend to England and Wales, and Scotland.
	Up-rating of the earnings-linked benefits except for survivors’ benefits in Industrial Death Benefit is a reserved matter in Great Britain. It is a transferred matter in Northern Ireland, although the Department for Communities has a policy of maintaining parity with Great Britain through its own legislation.
	Survivors’ benefits in Industrial Death Benefit are devolved to Scotland. The Scottish Government will need to match our change in order to remain within the terms of the Agency Agreement under which the Department for Work and Pensions is temporarily delivering these benefits on behalf of Scottish Ministers (on the understanding that the Scottish Government will mirror DWP legislation in all respects until it is able to replace these benefits with its own new ones). There has been agreement in principle to a Legislative Consent Motion to allow this Act to cover Scotland in this respect.
	See the table in Annex A for a summary of the position regarding territorial extent and application in the United Kingdom.