Member

Clauses 16 to 18 cover the administrative aspects of the Bill. Clause 16 gives the provisions in the Bill the same extent as they have in the Arbitration Act 1996, which means that the Bill extends to England, Wales and Northern Ireland so that all three jurisdictions benefit from a modernised arbitral framework. Civil justice is not devolved in Wales, but it is now a devolved matter in Northern Ireland. The requisite legislative consent motion was agreed by the Northern Ireland Assembly on 9 December 2024. We are grateful to the Northern Ireland Executive’s Department of Justice for its support in this matter. For completeness, I note that Scotland has its own arbitration legislation, namely the Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010, which is not affected by this Bill.