Northern Ireland Assembly Act 1973
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1973 c. 17 |
| Year | 1973 |
(1) There shall be a Northern Ireland Assembly which shall consist of F290 members.(2) Those members shall be returned for the constituencies in Northern Ireland which would return members to the Parliament of the United Kingdom if a general election were held at the passing of this Act, and the number of members returned by each constituency shall be that specified for the constituency in the second column of the Schedule to this Act.(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) The proceedings of the Assembly shall not be invalid because of any vacancy in their membership.(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . capable of being given so as to indicate the voter’s order of preference for the candidates for election as members for the constituency, andwhen the vote is not required to give a prior choice the necessary quota of votes, orwhen, owing to the deficiency in the number of votes given for a prior choice, that choice is eliminated from the list of candidates.(4) Every candidate at the election under this Act shall, in accordance with the provisions of an order under the following provisions of this section, make a deposit of £150, and the deposit shall be forfeited unless the candidate is elected, or the number of votes credited to him at any one or more of the stages of counting the votes exceeds a quarter of the quota needed to elect him.the intervals between the stages of the election,the form of declaration to be made by a candidate, the contents of nomination papers, and the taking of the poll,the method of voting, and the method of counting and transferring votes,the procedure on the death of a candidate,the questioning of elections, andcorrupt and illegal practices, and the disqualifications to be imposed, in any part of the United Kingdom, for a corrupt or illegal practice in the election under this Act.may include any supplemental or incidental provisions, including provisions creating criminal offences,may apply, with any modifications or exceptions specified in the order, any of the provisions of the shall be contained in a statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, F5a person is disqualified for membership of the Assembly if he is disqualified for membership of the Commons House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom otherwise than by the House of Commons Disqualification Act F6M21975.(1A) A person who is determined by the High Court to have acted in breach of the terms of a declaration against terrorism as defined in section 7 of the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 is disqualified for membership of the Assembly during the period of five years beginning with the date of the determination.(2) A person shall not be disqualified from being a member of the Assembly by reason only that he is peer, whether of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, England, Scotland or Ireland.for the consequences of a disqualification imposed F8by this section, or by the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975, andfor the circumstances in which such a disqualification may be disregarded, andfor conferring jurisdiction to decide whether a disqualification has been imposed F8by this section, or by that Act.
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