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41Definitions for parliamentary purposes.N.I.
(1)In an enactment the expression—
[ “Assembly” means the Northern Ireland Assembly];
“House of Commons”, when used without qualification[ in any enactment passed or made before 1st January 1974], shall mean House of Commons of Northern Ireland;
“Parliament”, when used without qualification[ in any enactment passed or made before 1st January 1974], shall mean Parliament of Northern Ireland;
“Senate” shall mean the Senate of Northern Ireland.
[(2)In any Act passed after the thirtieth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty, “statutory period” means a period comprising—
(a)ten days on which the [ Assembly] has sat; or
(b)…
(c)thirty days;
whichever period is the longest, such days being reckoned without regard to whether they occur during one or more than one session of the same [ Assembly] or of different [ Assemblies] …].
[(3)Where, under any enactment, a statutory instrument or statutory document is required to be laid before the Assembly, the delivery of a copy of the instrument or document to the Business Office of the Assembly on any day during the existence of an Assembly shall for all purposes be deemed to be the laying of it before the Assembly.]
(4)The expression “subject to affirmative resolution” when used in relation to any statutory instruments or statutory documents shall mean that those instruments or documents shall not come into operation unless and until affirmed by a resolution of[ the Assembly].
Subs. (5) rep. by SI 1999/663
(6)The expression “subject to negative resolution” when used in relation to any statutory instruments or statutory documents shall mean that those instruments or documents shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before[ the Assembly, and if the Assembly], within the statutory period next after any such instrument or document has been so laid, resolves that the instrument or document shall be annulled, the instrument or document shall be void as from the date of the resolution, but without prejudice to the validity of anything done thereunder or to the making of a new instrument or document.
Subs. (7) rep. by SI 1999/663
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