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You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. You have rejected additional cookies. This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This is the 5th annual report laid before Parliament in accordance with the requirements of section 2 of the Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence Ratification of Convention Act The Convention covers both reserved and devolved areas, and this report therefore covers the whole of the UK.
Protecting women and girls from violence and abuse, and supporting victims and survivors, remain key priorities for this Government. The Convention consists of 81 articles aimed at tackling VAWG which focus on prevention, protection of victims, prosecution, and integrated policies.
A key element of the Convention is making sure that ratifying states can use their national law to prosecute offences required by the Convention when those offences are committed by their nationals or residents overseas Article Taking extraterritorial jurisdiction over offences required by the Convention which were not subject to such jurisdiction required primary legislation. On 29 April we passed the landmark Domestic Abuse Act , which includes necessary legislative measures on extraterritorial jurisdiction for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as required by Article The relevant provisions of the Act for England and Wales came into force automatically on 29 June and the corresponding provisions for Scotland were brought into force by order on the same day.
Therefore, this means that those parts of the UK are now fully compliant with Article Separately, the Domestic Abuse and Civil Proceedings Act Northern Ireland , which became law on 1 March , includes and gives extraterritorial effect to a new domestic abuse offence in Northern Ireland, which will allow Northern Ireland to be compliant with the requirement in Article 33 of the Convention for psychological violence to be criminalised.
