PAYMENTS FOR DEBT (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971

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PAYMENTS FOR DEBT (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 17

1954 c.33

17.(1) If in any respect any difficulty or uncertainty arises in giving full
effect to any provision of this Act, the appropriate authority may, ..., by
order give such directions or make such further or other arrangements as may
appear to that authority to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of
giving full effect to that provision.

(2) ..., an order under this section may modify any transferred provision so
far as may appear to the appropriate authority to be necessary or expedient
for the purposes of the order, and it shall be the duty of all persons
affected thereby to comply with the terms of every such order.

Subs.(3) rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.II

(4) An appropriate authority may give directions requiring any
local or public authority or any officer or person to furnish to the
appropriate authority all such records and information within the knowledge or
under the care or custody of that local or public authority or officer or
person as appear to the appropriate authority to be necessary or expedient for
giving full effect to any provision of this Act.

(5) Any officer of a local or public authority, or any other person, who acts
in contravention of any provision of any order under this section, or of any
direction given under any such order, or of any direction given under
subsection (4), shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine
not exceeding #250, or to both.

(6) An order under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.

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PAYMENTS FOR DEBT (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 17