Paragraph 35 I1

Amend section 11 of the Knives Act 1997^f1 (short title, commencement and extent etc.) as follows.

After subsection (7) insert—

“(8)

In its application to Northern Ireland, this Act has effect with the following modifications—

(a)

any reference in section 3 or 7 to the Secretary of State must be read as a reference to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland;

(b)

any power of the Department of Justice to make regulations under section 3 or 7 is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (and not by statutory instrument); and

(c)

regulations made by the Department of Justice under section 3 or 7 shall be subject to negative resolution (within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954).”