Northern Ireland Act 1998 c.47

Northern Ireland Act 1998

1998 Chapter 47

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Section

1. - Status of Northern Ireland.

2. - Previous enactments.

3. - Devolution order.

4. - Transferred, excepted and reserved matters.

PART II

LEGISLATIVE POWERS

General

5. - Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

6. - Legislative competence.

7. - Entrenched enactments.

8. - Consent of Secretary of State required in certain cases.

Scrutiny and stages of Bills

9. - Scrutiny by Ministers.

10. - Scrutiny by Presiding Officer.

11. - Scrutiny by the Judicial Committee.

12. - Reconsideration where reference made to ECJ.

13. - Stages of Bills.

Royal Assent

14. - Submission by Secretary of State.

15. - Parliamentary control where consent given.

PART III

EXECUTIVE AUTHORITIES

Authorities

16. - First Minister and deputy First Minister.

17. - Ministerial offices.

18. - Northern Ireland Ministers.

19. - Junior Ministers.

20. - The Executive Committee.

21. - Northern Ireland departments.

Functions

22. - Statutory functions.

23. - Prerogative and executive powers.

24. - Community law, Convention rights etc.

25. - Excepted and reserved matters.

26. - International obligations.

27. - Quotas for purposes of international etc obligations.

28. - Agency arrangements between UK and NI departments.

Miscellaneous

29. - Statutory committees.

30. - Exclusion of Ministers from office.

PART IV

THE NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY

Elections etc

31. - Dates of elections and dissolutions.

32. - Extraordinary elections.

33. - Constituencies and numbers of members.

34. - Elections and franchise.

35. - Vacancies.

Disqualification

36. - Disqualification.

37. - Effect of disqualification and provision for relief.

38. - Disqualification: judicial proceedings.

Presiding Officer and Commission

39. - Presiding Officer.

40. - Commission.

Proceedings etc.

41. - Standing orders.

42. - Petitions of concern.

43. - Members' interests.

44. - Power to call for witnesses and documents.

45. - Witnesses and documents: offences.

46. - Witnesses: oaths.

Remuneration and pensions

47. - Remuneration of members.

48. - Pensions of members.

Miscellaneous

49. - Letters Patent etc.

50. - Privilege.

51. - Resignation of members.

PART V

NSMC, BIC, BIIC ETC.

52. - North-South Ministerial Council and British-Irish Council.

53. - Agreements etc. by persons participating in Councils.

54. - British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference.

55. - Implementation bodies.

56. - Civic Forum.

PART VI

FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

Consolidated Fund

57. - Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland.

58. - Payments into the Fund.

59. - Payments out of Fund without appropriation Act.

60. - Financial control, accounts and audit.

Advances

61. - Advances by Secretary of State.

62. - Accounts.

Miscellaneous

63. - Financial acts of the Assembly.

64. - Draft budgets.

65. - Audit.

66. - Expenses of Northern Ireland Audit Office.

67. - Provision of information to Treasury.

PART VII

HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Human rights

68. - The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.

69. - The Commission's functions.

70. - Assistance by Commission.

71. - Restrictions on application of rights.

72. - Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights: dissolution.

Equality of opportunity

73. - The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.

74. - The Commission's principal functions.

75. - Statutory duty on public authorities.

76. - Discrimination by public authorities.

77. - Unlawful oaths etc.

78. - Removal of restrictions on investigation into maladministration.

PART VIII

MISCELLANEOUS

Judicial scrutiny

79. - Devolution is...

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