{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010/schedule-12/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010/schedule-12/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/976",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State’s functions immediately before the coming into force of this Order under section 3 of the Explosives Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 ... are transferred to the Department of Justice.\n(2) Any regulations made by the Department of Justice under section 3 of the 1970 Act are subject to negative resolution (within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954).\n(3) Section 3(5) of the 1970 Act is omitted.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The functions transferred by sub-paragraph (1) include functions under any provision not yet in force at the time immediately before the coming into force of this Order (and a reference in those sub-paragraphs to an enactment includes a reference to the enactment as amended by any provision of an enactment or instrument passed or made before that time, but not yet in force).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 para. 2(1) omitted (2.9.2014) by virtue of The Control of Explosives Precursors etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/224), regs. 1(2), 29(10)(a)(i) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 2(4) omitted (2.9.2014) by virtue of The Control of Explosives Precursors etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/224), regs. 1(2), 29(10)(a)(ii) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 para. 2(5) substituted (2.9.2014) by The Control of Explosives Precursors etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/224), regs. 1(2), 29(10)(a)(iii) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 2 in force at 12.4.2010, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c.10 (N.I.) Section 3 was extended by S.I. 1972/730 (N.I. 3). Functions under section 3 were transferred by S.I. 1973/2163. Section 3 was amended by S.R. (N.I.) 2006 No. 425."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.). Section 41(6) was amended by S.I. 1999/663."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/976/schedule/12/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:45:39.950485+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."
}