# The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010, Paragraph 6

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

In Article 8 (duration and conditions of licences)—
(a) in paragraphs (2) and (3) for “Secretary of State” substitute “Department of Justice”;
(b) for paragraph (4) substitute—
“(4) Rules made under paragraph (2) shall be subject to negative resolution.”;
(c) after paragraph (4) insert—
“(5) The Secretary of State may exercise any power of the Department of Justice to include, insert, vary or cancel conditions in a licence but only if his decision to exercise the power is arrived at (wholly or partly) on the basis of protected information; and, in relation to the exercise of such a power by the Secretary of State, in paragraph (3) the reference to the Department of Justice is to be read as a reference to the Secretary of State.
(6) The Department of Justice must exercise its powers subject to anything done by the Secretary of State by virtue of paragraph (5).”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/976/schedule/5/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010/schedule-5/paragraph-6
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