Paragraph 3
United Kingdom
References to Acts of the Assembly in any enactment or instrument (whether passed or made before or after the coming into force of section 1) are to be read, so far as the context permits, as including references to Orders in Council made under paragraph 1(1).
Such Orders may be omitted from any annual edition of statutory instruments required to be prepared under regulations made as a result of section 8 of the M1Statutory Instruments Act 1946.
“Instrument” includes a charter, contract or other document.
Annotations
Marginal citations
- M1
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
- F1
Act repealed (10.5.2007) by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006 (c. 53), ss. 2(2)(5), 27(4)(5), Sch. 4 para. 1 (with Sch. 4 para. 2) (as amended by Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2007 (c. 4), s. 1); S.I. 2007/1397, art. 2
Notes on Schedule
Textual amendments
- F1
Sch. para. 14 and preceding heading added (15.5.2003) by Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Act 2003 (c. 12), s. 5(6)