PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924

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PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 - SECT 1



1.(1) The enactments set out in the Schedule to this Act (being enactments
relating to or affecting proceedings in connection with private Bills) are
hereby applied to proceedings taken or arising in connection with private
Bills in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, if and in so far as the said
enactments did not, immediately before the passing of this Act, apply to such
proceedings by virtue of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920.

(2) The said enactments shall, in their application to such proceedings
(whether under this Act or by virtue of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920)
have effect with the following modifications and adaptations:

(a)References to Parliament and to each, either, or both of the Houses of
Parliament shall be construed respectively as references to the Parliament of
Northern Ireland, and to each, either or both of the Houses of that
Parliament:

Provided that

(i)references to committees of either House shall be construed as including
references to joint committees of both Houses, and references to standing
orders of either House shall be construed as including references to standing
orders made jointly by the Senate and House of Commons, and

(ii)the expression "Act of Parliament," where it occurs in sections two and
three of the Borough Funds (Ireland) Act, 1888, shall be construed as
including any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Para.(b) rep. by 1969 c.48 s.137 sch.8

(c)References in the Parliamentary Deposits Act, 1846, to the House of Lords
and to officers of that House shall not apply; the reference in section five
of the said Act to a certificate of the chairman of committees of that House
shall be construed as a reference to a certificate of the Speaker of the
Senate; and the reference in section two of the said Act to any clerk of the
private Bill office of the House of Commons shall be construed as a reference
to the clerk of the Parliaments of Northern Ireland or any clerk-assistant of
either House of Parliament;

(d)The House of Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1847, as amended or extended by
any of the said enactments, shall be construed as applying with respect to
taxation in both Houses of the Parliament of Northern Ireland; sections two to
nine (inclusive) of the House of Lords Costs Taxation Act, 1849, shall not
apply; and the provisions of the remaining sections of the last-mentioned Act
with respect to taxation under the authority of the said Act, and with respect
to proceedings arising solely by reason of the existence of a separate taxing
officer for each House of Parliament, shall not apply;

(e)References in any of the said enactments to the taxing officer of the House
of Commons or the taxing officer of the House of Lords shall be construed as
references to such person as shall from time to time be appointed by the
Speakers of the Senate and the House of Commons of Northern Ireland as Taxing
Officer of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and that Taxing Officer shall,
for the purpose of the taxation of costs, charges and expenses incurred in
respect of a private Bill in the said Senate or House of Commons, exercise the
powers and perform the duties which are by any of the said enactments
conferred and imposed upon both the first-mentioned taxing officers or upon
either of them;

(f)References in any of the said enactments to the list of costs, charges and
expenses to be allowed upon such taxation as aforesaid shall be construed as
references to any list of such costs, charges and expenses which may from time
to time be prepared and published by the Speakers of both Houses of the
Parliament of Northern Ireland;

(g)Any report of taxation required for the purposes of section nine of the
House of Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1847, to be made by the said Taxing
Officer shall be made to the Speakers of both Houses of the Parliament of
Northern Ireland, and the certificate referred to in the said section shall be
given by such Speakers jointly;

(h)References in the said enactments to any department or authority of the
United Kingdom Government, if they occur in relation to functions which under
or in pursuance of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, have been transferred
as respects Northern Ireland to any department or authority of the Government
of Northern Ireland, shall be construed as references to the department or
authority to which they have been transferred; and references to the Chief
Secretary and a Secretary of State, if they occur in relation to such
functions, shall be construed as references to the appropriate Minister of
Northern Ireland.

(3) For the purposes of this Act the expression "private Bill" includes any
Bill for a local or personal Act.

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PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 - SECT 1