(1)The enactments specified below (which make provision for the protection of victims and witnesses of certain offences) have effect—
(a)as if any reference in those provisions to a specific substantive offence included an offence under section 51 involving conduct constituting that offence; and
(b)as if any reference in those provisions to a specific ancillary offence included—
(i)that ancillary offence in relation to an offence under section 51 involving conduct constituting the substantive offence in question, and
(ii)an offence under section 52 involving conduct constituting that ancillary offence in relation to an act to which that section applies involving conduct constituting the substantive offence in question.
(2)The enactments are—
the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976 (c. 82) and the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 (c.34) (protection of victims of sexual offences);
Chapters 1 to 3 of Part 2 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (c. 23) (protection of witnesses and complainants); and
the Sexual Offences (Protected Material) Act 1997 (c. 39) (restrictions on access by defendants and others to material disclosed in connection with proceedings for offences).
(3)In subsection (1) above—
(a)“substantive offence” means an offence other than an ancillary offence; and
(b)the reference to conduct constituting an offence is to conduct that would constitute that offence if committed in England and Wales.