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The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2007

S.I. 2007/1252 · Made 16 April 2007

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Lord chief justice of northern ireland

Made 16th April 2007

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 148 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2005 c.4.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Commencement of provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2007.

2Commencement of provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005

The following provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 shall come into force on 8th May 2007—

(a)

section 5(3) and 5(4) (representations to Parliament);

(b)

section 6 (representations to the Northern Ireland Assembly); and

(c)

section 11 (Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland), in so far as it inserts subsection (1B)(b) into section 12 of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002f1.

Signature

Falconer of Thoroton, C.

16th April 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force the provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4) listed in Article 2. These relate to the role of the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland in respect of making representations to Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the First Minister, deputy First Minister and Northern Ireland Ministers.