Regulation 6 Concurrent powers of Ministers of the Crown

A Minister of the Crown^f1 may do anything that a Minister, a Northern Ireland department or a relevant competent authority could do for the purpose of observing or implementing a relevant provision of the Windsor Framework.

The fact that a matter has not been brought to the attention of, or discussed and agreed by, the Executive Committee is to be disregarded when determining what a Minister, a Northern Ireland department or a relevant competent authority could do for the purposes of paragraph (1).

Any enactment^f2 or document is to have effect, so far as may be necessary for or in consequence of anything done by a Minister of the Crown in reliance on this regulation as if references to a Minister, a Northern Ireland department or a relevant competent authority (as the case may be) included, or were, references to the Minister of the Crown.

Anything required or authorised by or under any enactment or document to be done to, or in relation to, a Minister, a Northern Ireland department or a relevant competent authority (as the case may be) in connection with anything done by a Minister of the Crown as a result of this regulation, is to be done instead to, or in relation to, that Minister of the Crown.

This regulation does not apply to anything that a Minister could do by virtue of sections 52A to 52C of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (attendance of Ministers at meetings of the North-South Ministerial Council and the British-Irish Council)^f3.

In this regulation “relevant competent authority” means a public body in Northern Ireland that is the designated competent authority in domestic law for the purpose of a provision of EU law applied by the Windsor Framework.