Any person who fails to comply with, or acts in contravention of, any regulations made under this section shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

Copies of regulations made under this section shall be displayed at the Stormont Estate in such manner as the Ministry may consider best adapted for giving information to persons affected by the regulations.

All regulations made under this section shall, so soon as may be after they are made, be laid before each House of Parliament. If either House of Parliament, within the statutory period next after any regulation made as aforesaid has been laid before such House, resolves that the regulation shall be annulled, the regulation shall, after the date of the resolution, be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new regulation.

Any person appointed by the Ministry of Finance to secure the observance of the regulations made under the foregoing provisions of this Act and in force with respect to the Stormont Estate (in this Act referred to as a “ranger” ) shall, in such part of the Estate as may be specified in the regulations, have all such powers, privileges and immunities, be liable to perform such duties, and be subject to such responsibilities, as if such ranger were a constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary on duty.

A ranger shall obey such lawful commands as he may from time to time receive from the Ministry of Finance in respect of his conduct in the execution of his office.

A ranger in uniform, and any persons whom such ranger may call to his assistance, may take into custody, without a warrant, any person who in such part of the Stormont Estate as aforesaid within the view of such ranger fails to comply with or acts in contravention of any regulation made by the Ministry of Finance under this Act, in any case where the name and residence of the person offending is unknown to, and cannot be ascertained by, such ranger. A person so taken into custody may be handed over to, and kept in custody by, an officer or constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary; and the ranger by whom a person has been so handed over shall, as soon as may be, take such steps as may be proper to have that person dealt with according to law.

Where any person offending as aforesaid, on being required by a ranger or by an officer or constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary to give his name and address, gives a false name or false address, such person shall on conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

Arrangements may be made between the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Home AffairsF2 whereby officers and constables of the Royal Ulster Constabulary shall have the powers and duties of a ranger within the Stormont Estate; and, if such arrangements are made, the provisions of this section shall have effect accordingly.

All offences against this Act or any regulations made under this Act shall be prosecuted, and all penalties under this Act shall be recovered, in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Acts;…

Proceedings in respect of an offence against this Act or any regulations made under this Act may, without prejudice to any other manner of proceeding authorised by the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Acts, be brought before and determined by any court of summary jurisdiction within the jurisdiction of which any part of the Stormont Estate is situate.

The powers conferred by the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any powers exercisable by the Ministry of Finance or any officer or servant of the said Ministry apart from this Act; and the last-mentioned powers may be exercised as if this Act had not been passed.

F4 The Ministry of Finance may purchase by agreement or take on lease any land, where the same is required for the purpose of any powers or duties of the said Ministry or for the administration of any public service in Northern Ireland.

Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained in this section, the Ministry of Finance may sell, exchange, lease or surrender on any terms any land for the time being vested in that Ministry, and on any such exchange may give or receive any money for equality of exchange; and that Ministry may sell either by public auction or by private contract, and may make any stipulations, as to title or otherwise, in any conditions of sale or contract for sale or exchange.

On any sale, exchange, lease or surrender, the Ministry of Finance may stipulate for, create or reserve all such rights or easements as may be deemed proper.

With the consent of the Ministry of Finance, any other Ministry of Northern Ireland may exercise, with respect to land for the time being vested in such other Ministry for the purpose of its powers or duties, the like powers as are conferred on the Ministry of Finance by sub-sections (2) and (3) of this section.

….F6 any moneys received by a Ministry in respect of any transaction carried out by such Ministry in the exercise of any power conferred upon it by this section shall be paid to the Exchequer of Northern Ireland…F7.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say:—

• “Land” includes buildings and water and any interests in land or water and any easement or right in, to or over land or water:

• “Lease” includes the granting of land at a rent for a term of years or in perpetuity, and with or without the payment of a fine:

• “Statutory period” means …

• definition in 1954 c. 33 (NI) substituted by 1979 NI 12

• “Stormont Estate” means the Stormont Castle Demesne including all land at Stormont for the time being held for the public purposes of the Parliament and Government of Northern Ireland.