Section 8 Northern Ireland.

United Kingdom

(1)

Sections 5 and 6 above shall apply to Northern Ireland with the following modifications.

(2)

In section 5 for the reference to section 84 of the M1F1Senior Courts Act 1981 there shall be substituted a reference to section 55 of the M2Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978.

F2(2A)

In section 6—

(a)

for the reference to the Lord Chancellor there shall be substituted a reference to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland;

(b)

for the reference to the making of an order by statutory instrument there shall be substituted a reference to the making of an order by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979.

F3(3)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Act substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 1(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)
F2: S. 8(2A) 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. 18 para. 40(2) (with arts. 28-31)
F3: S. 8(3) repealed (31.1.1997) by 1996 c. 23, s. 107(2), Sch.4 (with s. 81(2)); S.I. 1996/3146, art.3 (with art. 4, Sch. 2)

Marginal citations

M1: 1981 c. 54.
M2: 1978 c. 23 (N.I.).