General

63Extent

(1)

This Act extends to—

(a)

England and Wales,

(b)

Scotland, and

(c)

Northern Ireland.

(2)

But—

(a)

an amendment by this Act of another Act has the same extent as that Act or as the relevant part of that Act (ignoring extent by virtue of an Order in Council), and

(b)

a provision of this Act shall, so far as it relates to nationality, have the same extent as the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61) (disregarding excepted provisions under section 53(7) of that Act).

(3)

Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that a provision of this Act is to extend, with or without modification or adaptation, to—

(a)

any of the Channel Islands;

(b)

the Isle of Man.

(4)

Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to the extension to a place of a provision which extends there by virtue of subsection (2)(b).