 Although the Act is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in general most of its provisions (except for some minor exceptions) only apply to England and Wales.Several of the Act's provisions were adopted, word for word, for Northern Ireland by the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 (c 18) (NI) and the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (c 28) (NI).They were adopted for the Republic of Ireland by the Criminal Law Act 1997.