Northern Ireland Act 1947

Application of Part III of Requisitioned Land and War Works Act1945 to Northern Ireland U.K.

12 Application of Part III of Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1945 to Northern Ireland. 8 & 9 Geo. c. 43. U.K.

(1) Part III of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1945 (which provides for the stopping up and diversion of highways stopped up or diverted in the exercise of emergency powers and for the retention of railways, tramways, etc., on highways where the highways are not stopped up or diverted, subject, however, to the publication of proposals in that behalf and the reference thereof to the War Works Commission in certain cases) shall apply to Northern Ireland subject to the modifications set out in the Second Schedule to this Act, and accordingly,—

(a) so much of subsection (2) of section sixty-one of that Act (which contains provisions with respect to the application of that Act to Northern Ireland) as provides that the said Part III shall not apply to Northern Ireland shall cease to have effect; and

(b) in subsection (8) of that section, after the words “For any reference to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries” there shall be inserted the words “(other than the reference in Part III of this Act)”.

(2) Any increase, by virtue of this section, in the sums which under the M1 Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1945 are defrayed out of moneys provided by the Parliament of the United Kingdom shall be defrayed out of moneys so provided.

Marginal Citations

M1 1945 c. 43.

13 Extension of power of Governor to effect consequential transfers of functions. U.K.

Subsection (1) of section two of the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1945 (which empowers the Governor of Northern Ireland, upon the transfer, by or under an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, of functions from one department of the Government of Northern Ireland or Minister of Northern Ireland to another such department or Minister, to effect, with the consent of the Secretary of State, a consequential transfer of functions conferred on the first-mentioned department or Minister by or under an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom) shall have effect —

(a) with the substitution, for the words “from a department of the Government of Northern Ireland or a Minister of Northern Ireland to another such department or Minister”, of the words “from one authority or person to another”; and

(b) with the substitution, for the words “the first-mentioned department or Minister” and the words “the last-mentioned department of Minister”, of the words “the one” and the words “the other”, respectively.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of s. 13 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.