INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954

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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 17



17.(1) Where an enactment confers a power or imposes a duty, the power may be
exercised and the duty shall be performed from time to time, as occasion
requires.

(2) Where an enactment confers a power to make any statutory instrument the
power shall be construed as including power, exercisable in the like manner
and subject to the like consent and conditions, if any, to amend, alter,
rescind or revoke, that instrument and to make other statutory instruments in
lieu thereof but this sub-section shall not apply to an order which is not
made by a rule-making authority in the exercise of a statutory power which is
of a legislative character.

(3) Where an enactment empowers any person or authority to do any act or
thing, all such powers shall be deemed to be also given as are reasonably
necessary to enable that person or authority to do that act or thing or are
incidental to the doing thereof.

(4) Where an enactment authorises or requires an act or thing to be done
collectively by more than two persons, a majority of those persons may do that
act or thing, unless any quorum fixed by that enactment or by any other
transferred provision has not been formed.

(5) Any power conferred by an enactment to make a statutory instrument or
issue a statutory document may be exercised

(a)either in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation
to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any
specified cases or classes of case; and

(b)so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is exercised

(i)the full provision to which the power extends or any less provision
(whether by way of exception or otherwise);

(ii)the same provision for all cases in relation to which the power is
exercised, or different provision for different cases or classes of case, or
different provision as respects the same case or class of case for different
purposes of the enactment;

<(iii)any such provision either unconditionally or subject to any specified condition.

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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 17