Except as mentioned in subsection (2), this Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Section 9 extends to Northern Ireland only.

Except as mentioned in subsection (4), this Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.

Sections 8 to 12 come into force on 22 October 2019, unless an Executive in Northern Ireland is formed on or before 21 October 2019 (in which case they do not come into force at all).

For the purposes of this section an Executive is formed once the offices of the First Minister, deputy First Minister and the Northern Ireland Ministers are all filled.

This Act may be cited as the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019.