In this Act—

• “compatibility question” has the meaning given in section 31,

• “incompatibility declarator” has the meaning given in section 26(2),

• “public authority” has the meaning given in section 6(5) and (8),

• “remedial regulations” has the meaning given in section 39(1),

• “strike down declarator” has the meaning given in section 25(2),

• “Supreme Court” means the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,

• “the Convention” has the meaning given in section 1(1),

• “the first optional protocol” has the meaning given in section 1(1),

• “the second optional protocol” has the meaning given in section 1(1),

• “the UNCRC requirements” has the meaning given in section 1(2),

• “UNCRC compatibility issue” has the meaning given in section 288AB(1) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.

For the purposes of this Act, a function conferred by words inserted by one enactment into another enactment (“the modified enactment”) is to be regarded as conferred only by the modified enactment.