{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-90.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/26",
  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/90",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Statutory rules",
  "text": "(1) Any power of—\n(a) the Lord Chancellor,\n(b) the Secretary of State, or\n(c) the First Minister and deputy First Minister or the Department of Justice,\nto make an order or a scheme (or alterations to a scheme) under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12)).\n(1A) No order containing (whether or not together with other provision) provision made by virtue of section 2(2)(b), 9(4), 19(4)(b), 46(6)(a) or (b) or 72(1), (3), (7) or (8) shall be made unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(1B) Section 41(3) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies for the purposes of subsection (1A) in relation to the laying of a draft as it applies in relation to the laying of a statutory document under an enactment.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) No order containing (whether or not together with other provision) provision made by virtue of section 78 shall be made unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.\n(5) The following instruments—\n(a) an order under section 2(2)(a) or (c),5A(6), 10(4), 12(3), 19(4)(a) or (c), ... 46(6)(c), 63(2), 72(2) or 85(2), Schedule 4 or paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 8, and\n(b) a scheme (or alterations to a scheme) under section 68 or 69A,\nshall, unless a draft has been approved by a resolution of the Northern Ireland Assembly, be subject to negative resolution (within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954).\n(6) An order under section 28(2) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament in the same manner as a statutory instrument; and section 5 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 applies accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1)(c) inserted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 2009 (c. 3), s. 5(7), Sch. 4 para. 34(2) (with Sch. 5 para. 16); S.I. 2010/812, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1)(c) substituted (N.I.) (12.4.2010) by Department of Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 3), s. 3(2), Sch. para. 14(4); S.R. 2010/147, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 90(1A)(1B) substituted for s. 90(1A) (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 23(a) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 90(1A) repealed (N.I.) (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 119(2), Sch. 9 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k)(m) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 90(2)(3) repealed (15.6.2005) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 1, 18, 19(1), Sch. 1 para. 4(2) {Sch. 4}; S.R. 2005/282, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(4) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 23(b) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(5)(a) inserted (15.6.2005) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 1, 19(1), Sch. 1 para. 4(4); S.R. 2005/282, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(5)(a) inserted (19.9.2007) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), ss. 61, 148; S.I. 2007/2709, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 90(5)(a) omitted (12.4.2010) by virtue of The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 23(c)(i) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(5)(b) inserted (N.I.) (14.12.2008) by Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 46(4), 60; S.I. 2008/3065, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(5) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 23(c)(ii) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 90(6) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 23(d) (with arts. 28-31)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/26",
      "affecting_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/section/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:23.998184+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}