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(1)This Act shall apply to Northern Ireland subject to the following modifications, that is to say—
(a)section 19(2) shall apply as if for the references to [F1section 127(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980]and the trial and laying of an information there were substituted respectively references to [F2Article 19(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981]and the hearing and determination and making of a complaint [F3and as if for the word “under” there were substituted the words “under section 29(1) of”;]
(b)section 26 and subsections (2) to (4) of section 30 shall not apply but it shall be the duty of the Ministry of Commerce for Northern Ireland to enforce the provisions of this Act and of any order made under it (other than the provisions of section 42 of this Act);
(c)sections 27 to 29 and 33 shall apply as if for references to a local weights and measures authority and any officer of such an authority there were substituted respectively references to the said Ministry and any of its officers.
(2)—(4) . . . F4
(5)The Board of Trade shall for each financial year pay into the Exchequer of Northern Ireland such sum as the Board and the Ministry of Commerce for Northern Ireland may agree to be appropriate as representing the expenses incurred by that Ministry in enforcing so much of this Act as relates to matters with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland does not have power to make laws.
(6)Nothing in this Act shall authorise any department of the Government of Northern Ireland to incur any expenses attributable to the provisions of this Act until provision has been made by the Parliament of Northern Ireland for those expenses to be defrayed out of moneys provided by that Parliament.
(7). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), s. 154, Sch. 7 para. 74
F2Words substituted by S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26), Sch. 6 Pt. I para. 13
F3Words added (N.I.) by S.I. 1980/704 (N.I. 6), Sch. 1 para. 43
F4S. 40(2)—(4)(7) repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 40(b)(c) extended by Control of Pollution Act 1974 (c. 40, SIF 46:4), s. 75(8)
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