Territorial extent and application
- Section 6 sets out the territorial extent of the Act. The Act will extend and apply to the whole of the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland. The Schedule to the Act has made a number of minor and consequential amendments to other legislation. While most of that legislation extends (and applies) to the whole of the UK, some has more limited extent (or application). Section 6(2) therefore provides that amendments, repeals and revocations made by the Schedule have the same extent as the provision amended, repealed or revoked.
- There is a convention that Westminster will not normally legislate with regard to matters that are within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament, Senedd Cymru or the Northern Ireland Assembly without the consent of the legislature concerned. The matters to which the provisions of the Act relate are not within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament, Senedd Cymru or the Northern Ireland Assembly. There are a few provisions in the Schedule which amend legislation relating to elections and referendums in Scotland and Wales. These amendments are purely consequential upon the provision made by the sections. Therefore, no Legislative Consent Motion was required in relation to any provision of the Act.
