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Changes over time for: Section 5
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Point in time view as at 02/12/1999.
Changes to legislation:
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Northern Ireland Act 1998, Section 5.
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5 Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly.U.K.
(1)Subject to sections 6 to 8, the Assembly may make laws, to be known as Acts.
(2)A Bill shall become an Act when it has been passed by the Assembly and has received Royal Assent.
(3)A Bill receives Royal Assent at the beginning of the day on which Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Northern Ireland signed with Her Majesty’s own hand signifying Her Assent are notified to the Presiding Officer.
(4)The date of Royal Assent shall be written on the Act by the Presiding Officer, and shall form part of the Act.
(5)The validity of any proceedings leading to the enactment of an Act of the Assembly shall not be called into question in any legal proceedings.
(6)This section does not affect the power of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to make laws for Northern Ireland, but an Act of the Assembly may modify any provision made by or under an Act of Parliament in so far as it is part of the law of Northern Ireland.
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