SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS

Devolution order under section 3 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998

5.

If provisions of this Order come into operation before the day appointed by an Order in Council under section 3 of the M1 Northern Ireland Act 1998 for the commencement of Parts II and III of that Act, then until the day so appointed—

(a)

references in those provisions to an Act of the Assembly shall be read as references to a Measure of the Assembly established under section 1 of the M2 Northern Ireland Assembly Act 1973; and

(b)

references in those provisions to a Northern Ireland Minister shall be read as references to the head of a Northern Ireland department.