This Act may be cited as the Northern Ireland Act 2000.

This Act (apart from subsection (1) and this subsection) comes into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.

In section 44 of the 1998 Act (power of Assembly to call for witnesses and documents), in subsection (4), at the end insert “ or during a period when section 1 of the Northern Ireland Act 2000 was in force ”.