(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act the Ministry of Finance may make such regulations with respect to the Stormont Estate as the said Ministry may consider necessary for all or any of the following purposes:—
(a)for the admission of the public to the Stormont Estate, at such times, and upon such conditions, as may be specified in the regulations; and
(b)for specifying the parts of the Stormont Estate to which the public may be admitted or to which any such regulations apply; and
(c)for securing the proper supervision of the Stormont Estate, or any specified part thereof, and the preservation of order and prevention of abuses therein.
(2)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.
(3)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.
(4)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.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 1-4 excluded (9.3.2006) by the Stormont Estate (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/612 (N.I. 5)), arts. 1(2), 3(2)