INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954

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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 41



41.(1) In an enactment the expression

["Assembly" means the Northern Ireland Assembly];

"House of Commons", when used without qualification, shall mean
House of Commons of Northern Ireland;

"Parliament", when used without qualification, shall mean Parliament of
Northern Ireland;

"Senate" shall mean the Senate of Northern Ireland.

[(2) In any Act passed after the thirtieth day of May, nineteen hundred and
fifty, "statutory period" means a period comprising

(a)ten days on which the [Assembly] has sat; or

(b)...

(c)thirty days;

(3) Where, under any Act of Parliament, a statutory instrument or
statutory document is required to be laid before Parliament, or before the
Commons House of Parliament, the delivery of a copy of such instrument or
document, as the case may be, to the Votes and Proceedings Office on any day
during the existence of a Parliament shall for all purposes be deemed to be
the laying of it before Parliament or before the Commons House of Parliament
(as the case may be).

(4) The expression "subject to affirmative resolution" when used in relation
to any statutory instruments or statutory documents shall mean that those
instruments or documents shall not come into operation unless and until
affirmed by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(5) The expression "subject to affirmative resolution of the Commons" when
used in relation to any statutory instruments or statutory documents shall
mean that those instruments or documents shall not come into operation unless
and until affirmed by a resolution of the House of Commons.

(6) The expression "subject to negative resolution" when used in relation to
any statutory instruments or statutory documents shall mean that those
instruments or documents shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid
before each House of Parliament, and if either such House, within the
statutory period next after any such instrument or document has been so laid,
resolves that the instrument or document shall be annulled, the instrument or
document shall be void as from the date of the resolution, but without
prejudice to the validity of anything done thereunder or to the making of a
new instrument or document.

(7) The expression "subject to negative resolution of the Commons" when used
in relation to any statutory instruments or statutory documents means that
those instruments or documents shall, as soon as may be after they are made,
be laid before the House of Commons and, if that House, within the
statutory period next after any such instrument or document has been so laid,
resolves that the instrument or document shall be annulled, the instrument or
document shall be void as from the date of the resolution, but without
prejudice to the validity of anything done thereunder or to the making of a
new instrument or document.

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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 41