Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1928
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Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1928
(18 & 19 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 24.
An Act to make miscellaneous amendments in the law applicable to Northern Ireland.
[3rd August 1928]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Provisions as to the Supreme Court.
1. It is hereby declared that the reservation in section forty-seven of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920(in this Act referred to as ‘the principal Act’) of matters relating to the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland shall not preclude the Parliament of Northern Ireland from conferring on the rule-making authority power to make rules regulating procedure and distribution of business in the Supreme Court in regard to matters within the jurisdiction of that Parliament, or from conferring on the Supreme Court jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from, and questions of law on cases stated for its opinion by, any inferior court or other tribunal, and power to direct any such court or tribunal to state such a case.
2 Explanation of restrictions in s. 4 of principal Act.
(1) The restrictions contained in section four of the principal Act on the power of the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make laws shall not be construed as preventing that Parliament making laws for the purpose of ensuring that live stock and agricultural produce (or any class thereof) shall not be sent to Great Britain, the Isle of Man or the Irish Free State, except under such regulations as to standards of quality, inspection or compulsory insurance as may be made by or under the authority of that Parliament.
(2) The said restrictions shall not extend, and shall be deemed never to have extended, so as to prevent the Parliament of Northern Ireland making laws with respect to the construction, carrying out or alteration of any works on or under or over any part of the seashore whether or not vested in the Crown, or the carrying out of dredging operations, or the deposit or removal of materials on or from ally such seashore, if the consent of the Board of Trade (and, where the seashore comprises foreshore the management whereof is vested in the Commissioners of Crown Lands, also the consent of those Commissioners) has been obtained; and the recital in an Act passed by that Parliament that any such consent has been obtained shall be sufficient evidence of the fact recited unless the contrary is proved; and the exercise of administrative powers by the Government of Northern Ireland in connection with such matters as aforesaid and in relation to byelaws affecting the foreshore shall be subject to the like consent.
In the case of an Act passed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland before the passing of this Act, the consent of the Board of Trade or Commissioners of Crown Lands may be obtained after the passing of this Act, and may be signified by an order of the said Board or Commissioners.
Where under the Landed Estates Court (Ireland) Act, 1858 , or any Act amending that Act, or under the Land Purchase Acts, an application is made for the sale or conveyance of or for a declaration of title as to any land in Northern Ireland, and the land includes any part of the foreshore or land immediately abutting thereon, or where an application is made to any department of the Government of Northern Ireland, for any consent, approval, order, licence, loan or other matter which may, or for any purpose which may, affect the foreshore, or land immediately abutting thereon, notice of the application shall be given by the court or the department concerned, to the Board of Trade and the Commissioners of Crown Lands.
(3) The said restrictions shall not be construed as preventing...
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