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PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924

PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 - LONG TITLE

An Act to give full effect to certain enactments in their
application to Private Bill Procedure in the Parliament of Northern
Ireland, and to make further provision with respect thereto.
[29th May 1924]
Adaptation of enactments respecting private Bill procedure.

PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 - SECT 1

1.(1) The enactments set out in the Schedule to this Act (being
enactments relating to or affecting proceedings in connection with
private Bills) are hereby applied to proceedings taken or arising in
connection with private Bills in the Parliament of Northern Ireland,
if and in so far as the said enactments did not, immediately
before the passing of this Act, apply to such proceedings by virtue
of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920.

(2) The said enactments shall, in their application to such
proceedings (whether under this Act or by virtue of the Government
of Ireland Act, 1920) have effect with the following modifications
and adaptations:

(a)References to Parliament and to each, either, or both of the
Houses of Parliament shall be construed respectively as references to
the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and to each, either or both of
the Houses of that Parliament:

Provided that

(i)references to committees of either House shall be construed as
including references to joint committees of both Houses, and
references to standing orders of either House shall be construed as
including references to standing orders made jointly by the Senate
and House of Commons, and

(ii)the expression "Act of Parliament," where it occurs in sections
two and three of the Borough Funds (Ireland) Act, 1888, shall be
construed as including any Act of the Parliament of the United
Kingdom.

Para.(b) rep. by 1969 c.48 s.137 sch.8

(c)References in the Parliamentary Deposits Act, 1846, to the House
of Lords and to officers of that House shall not apply; the
reference in section five of the said Act to a certificate of the
chairman of committees of that House shall be construed as a
reference to a certificate of the Speaker of the Senate; and the
reference in section two of the said Act to any clerk of the
private Bill office of the House of Commons shall be construed as
a reference to the clerk of the Parliaments of Northern Ireland or
any clerk-assistant of either House of Parliament;

(d)The House of Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1847, as amended or
extended by any of the said enactments, shall be construed as
applying with respect to taxation in both Houses of the Parliament
of Northern Ireland; sections two to nine (inclusive) of the House
of Lords Costs Taxation Act, 1849, shall not apply; and the
provisions of the remaining sections of the last-mentioned Act with
respect to taxation under the authority of the said Act, and with
respect to proceedings arising solely by reason of the existence of
a separate taxing officer for each House of Parliament, shall not
apply;

(e)References in any of the said enactments to the taxing officer
of the House of Commons or the taxing officer of the House of
Lords shall be construed as references to such person as shall from
time to time be appointed by the Speakers of the Senate and the
House of Commons of Northern Ireland as Taxing Officer of the
Parliament of Northern Ireland, and that Taxing Officer shall, for
the purpose of the taxation of costs, charges and expenses incurred
in respect of a private Bill in the said Senate or House of
Commons, exercise the powers and perform the duties which are by
any of the said enactments conferred and imposed upon both the
first-mentioned taxing officers or upon either of them;

(f)References in any of the said enactments to the list of costs,
charges and expenses to be allowed upon such taxation as aforesaid
shall be construed as references to any list of such costs, charges
and expenses which may from time to time be prepared and published
by the Speakers of both Houses of the Parliament of Northern
Ireland;

(g)Any report of taxation required for the purposes of section nine
of the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1847, to be made by
the said Taxing Officer shall be made to the Speakers of both
Houses of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and the certificate
referred to in the said section shall be given by such Speakers
jointly;

(h)References in the said enactments to any department or authority
of the United Kingdom Government, if they occur in relation to
functions which under or in pursuance of the Government of Ireland
Act, 1920, have been transferred as respects Northern Ireland to any
department or authority of the Government of Northern Ireland, shall
be construed as references to the department or authority to which
they have been transferred; and references to the Chief Secretary
and a Secretary of State, if they occur in relation to such
functions, shall be construed as references to the appropriate
Minister of Northern Ireland.

(3) For the purposes of this Act the expression "private Bill"
includes any Bill for a local or personal Act.

PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 - SECT 2
Saving for proceedings taken before commencement of Act.

2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting any
proceedings taken, fees charged, costs taxed or matter or thing done
before the passing of this Act in connection with any private Bill
in either House of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or by any
member, committee or officer of either of those Houses; and all
such proceedings, fees, costs, matters and things shall be deemed to
have been taken, charged, taxed and done under and in compliance
with the provisions of this Act.

PRIVATE BILL PROCEDURE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 - SECT 3
Short title.

3. This Act may be cited as the Private Bill Procedure Act
(Northern Ireland), 1924.$$#

MINISTERS (TEMPORARY EXERCISE OF POWERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924

MINISTERS (TEMPORARY EXERCISE OF POWERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924
- LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision for the temporary exercise of the powers
of Ministers of Northern Ireland.
[29th May 1924]
Temporary exercise of powers of Minister.

MINISTERS (TEMPORARY EXERCISE OF POWERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924
- SECT 1

1. The Governor of Northern Ireland may, if at any time a Minister
of Northern Ireland is unable to act, designate ... any other
Minister of Northern Ireland, to act for such first-mentioned
Minister during such period, and subject to such conditions, as the
said Governor may think fit; and, during the said period, and
subject as aforesaid, references in any enactment to such
first-mentioned Minister shall be construed as references to the ...
Minister so designated to act.

MINISTERS (TEMPORARY EXERCISE OF POWERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924
- SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Ministers (Temporary Exercise of
Powers) Act (Northern Ireland), 1924.