These Regulations bring into force, on 29 June 2021, section 74(2) and part 2 of schedule 3 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (“the Act”). These provisions extend extraterritorial jurisdiction to certain sexual offences under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 (asp 9), the offence of stalking under section 39 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13) and the common law offence of assault. The provisions also make amendments to existing extraterritorial offences under section 11(1) and (2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 46).

The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 29 April 2021. Of those provisions extending to Scotland, section 81 and sections 85 to 91 came into force on the day the Act was passed.