(1)The [F1OFT] may make arrangements with the Department of Commerce for Northern Ireland for the Department, on [F2the OFT’s] behalf,—
(a)to receive applications, notices and fees;
(b)to maintain, and make available for inspection and copying, copies of entries in the register; and
(c)to provide certified copies of entries in the register,
to the extent that seems to [F3the OFT] desirable for the convenience of persons in Northern Ireland.
(2)The [F1OFT] shall give general notice of any arrangements made under subsection (1).
(3)Nothing in this Act shall authorise any Northern Ireland department to incur any expenses attributable to the provisions of this Act until provision has been made for those expenses to be defrayed out of money appropriated for the purpose.
(4)The power of the Department of Commerce for Northern Ireland to make an order under section 178 shall be exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the [F4Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979], and any such order shall be subject to negative resolution within the meaning of the M1Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 as if it were a statutory instrument within the meaning of that Act.
(5)In this Act “enactment ” includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or the Northern Ireland Assembly, and “Act ” shall be construed in a corresponding manner; and (without prejudice to section 189(6)) any reference in this Act to such an enactment shall include a reference to any enactment re-enacting it with or without modifications.
(6)Section 38 of the M2Interpretation Act 1889 (effect of repeals) shall have the same operation in relation to any repeal by this Act of an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland as it has in relation to the repeal of an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, references in that section of the Act of 1889 to Acts and enactments being construed accordingly.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 191 substituted (1.4.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 6(39)(a); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)
F2Words in s. 191(1) substituted (1.4.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 6(39)(b); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)
F3Words in s. 191(1) substituted (1.4.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 6(39)(b); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)
F4Words substituted by S.I. 1979/1573, art. 11(1), Sch. 4 para. 15
Marginal Citations
M11954 c. 33. (N.I.)