# Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022, Section 5: Exercise of departmental functions: supplementary

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

(1) Sections 3 and 4 have effect despite anything in the Northern Ireland Act 1998, the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1)) or any other enactment or rule of law that would prevent a senior officer of a Northern Ireland department from exercising departmental functions in the absence of Northern Ireland Ministers.
(2) No inference is to be drawn from sections 3 and 4 or this section as to whether or not a senior officer of a Northern Ireland department would otherwise have been prevented from exercising departmental functions.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/48/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-executive-formation-etc-act-2022/section-5
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