Territorial extent and application
- Section 23 sets out the territorial extent of this Act, that is the jurisdiction which the Act forms part of the law.
- In general terms, this Act extends to the whole of the UK and grants substantive powers to the devolved administrations, for instance the powers to restate REUL and the powers to revoke or replace REUL as set out in sections 11, 12 and 14 respectively.
- In addition, repeals and amendments made by this Act have the same territorial extent as the legislation that they are amending or repealing. For example, section 3 of this Act amends section 5 of EUWA and inserts new text that ends the application of the principle of supremacy. That section has a UK wide extent, and so do the amendments to it made by this Act.
- The UK Parliament does 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. It is also the practice of the UK Government to seek the consent of the devolved legislatures for provisions which would alter the competence of those legislatures or the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- See the table in Annex A for a summary of the position regarding territorial extent and application in the United Kingdom.
