Northern Ireland Act 2000
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 2000 c. 1 |
| Year | 2000 |
(1) While this section is in force, the Northern Ireland Assembly is suspended and the following provisions of this section have effect.(2) No Act is to be passed by the Assembly.(3) Neither the Assembly nor any committee of the Assembly is to hold a meeting or conduct any business.(4) No person is to continue to hold office or be ... nominated or appointed as a Minister or junior Minister, or as a chairman or deputy chairman of a statutory committee.(5) The functions conferred by F5section 52A, 52B or 53 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (North-South Ministerial Council and British-Irish Council) are not to be exercised.(6) The functions conferred by section 54 of that Act (British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference) are not to be exercised.(7) No functions are to be conferred under section 55(2) (b) of that Act (implementation bodies) .(8) The Schedule to this Act makes further provision in connection with that made by this section.(1) As soon as is reasonably practicable after section 1 comes into force, the Secretary of State must take steps to initiate a review under the Validation, Implementation and Review section of the Belfast Agreement.(2) The Secretary of State may by order (“a restoration order”) provide that section 1 is to cease to have effect on the date specified in the order.(3) Before making a restoration order, the Secretary of State must take into account the result of the review conducted as a result of subsection (1) .(1) This section applies when a restoration order is made.the person who held office as First Minister immediately before the date on which section 1 came into force, andthe person who held office as deputy First Minister at that time,with the omission of subsection (1) ; andas if the person who is no longer eligible ceased to hold office on the effective date.(4) Subsection (5) applies if the office of First Minister or deputy First Minister was vacant on the date on which section 1 came into force.with the omission of subsection (1) ; andas if the office had been vacated on the effective date.a Northern Ireland Minister,a junior Minister, orchairman or deputy chairman of a statutory committee,in the case of Northern Ireland Ministers, in accordance with section 18(10) of the 1998 Act,in the case of junior Ministers, in accordance with the provision for the filling of vacancies made by virtue of section 19(3) (a) of that Act, andin the case of chairmen or deputy chairmen of statutory committees, in accordance with standing orders made as a result of section 29(8) of that Act,(8) The Assembly may not make a determination under section 47 of the 1998 Act in respect of any period when section 1 was in force.(9) No instrument made during any period when section 1 was in force shall be liable to annulment or capable of being revoked in pursuance of a resolution, motion or address of the Assembly.(10) A restoration order shall not affect the operation of any Order in Council made under paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule during any period when section 1 was in force.(11) On the effective date, any direction made by the Secretary of State under section 47B or section 51B of the 1998 Act while section 1 was in force shall cease to have effect.The effect of an order made by the Secretary of State revoking a restoration order is that section 1 comes into force again. (1) If, while section 1 is in force, arrangements made under an agreement between Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of Ireland require any functions of an implementation body, so far as they relate to Northern Ireland, to be transferred to a Northern Ireland department, the Secretary of State must by order transfer those functions to the department.(2) If, when a restoration order is made, arrangements made under such an agreement require any functions of a Northern Ireland department to be transferred to an implementation body, the Secretary of State must by order transfer those functions to the body.The Secretary of State may by order make such modifications of enactments as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of any provision made by, or under, this Act. (1) Any power of the Secretary of State to make an order under this Act (“an order”) is exercisable by statutory instrument.(2) An order may make such consequential, supplemental or transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient.(3) An order under paragraph 12(4) (b) of the Schedule shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.(4) Any other order (except one under section 9(2) ) may not be made unless a draft of the order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.(5) Except in the case of an order made under paragraph 1(4) of the Schedule, subsection (4) does not apply if the
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