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LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968

LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make further provision with respect to the recital of
consents required for the purposes of certain enactments, and with
respect to the laying, and the period of laying, of subordinate
legislation before Parliament; and for purposes connected therewith.
[12th December 1968]
S.1 rep. by SLR 1976

LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 2
Amendments as to the period within which certain rules and
instruments are to be laid before Parliament.

2.(1) Where a provision of any Act passed by Parliament before the
commencement of this Act, or of any Act relating to a matter in
respect of which Parliament has power to make laws and passed by
the Parliament of the United Kingdom at any time before the
commencement of this Act, requires any statutory rules or other
instrument to be laid before either or both of the Houses of
Parliament within any specified period after the making of such
rules or instrument or, if Parliament or, as the case may be, the
House in question is not then sitting, within any specified period
after the beginning of the then next meeting or session of
Parliament or the next meeting of that House, as from the
commencement of this Act that provision shall have effect as if for
such requirement there were substituted the requirement that the
rules or, as the case may be, the instrument shall be laid before
Parliament or such House as soon as may be after they or it are
or is made.

(2) In this section

"statutory rules" has the same meaning as in the [Statutory Rules
(Northern Ireland) Order 1979]; and

"instrument" has the same meaning as in section 1(c) of the
Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.

S.3 substitutes s.41(2) of 1954 c.33 (NI). S.4 rep. by 1979 NI12
art.11(2) sch.5

LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 5
Short title.

5. This Act may be cited as the Legislative Procedure Act (Northern
Ireland) 1968.