Part VI Extent, Commencement, Short Title, &c.
52 Extent of Act.
Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained with respect to Northern Ireland, this Act shall not affect the law enforced in courts elsewhere than in England and Scotland, or the procedure in any such courts.
53 Provisions as to Northern Ireland.
1
His Majesty may by Order in Council provide for extending this Act to Northern Ireland with such additions, exceptions and modifications as appear to His Majesty to be expedient.
2
An Order in Council under this section may provide for amending the law both in its application to the Crown in right of His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and in its application to the Crown in right of His Majesty’s Government in Northern Ireland.
3
An Order in Council under this section may provide for amending the law:—
a
with respect to the right of the Crown to sue in a county court in Northern Ireland; and
b
with respect to the award of costs to or against the Crown in Northern Ireland.
4
An Order in Council under this section may be varied or revoked by a further Order in Council made thereunder.
5
An Order in Council under this section may include such provisions as appear to His Majesty to be incidental to or consequential on any provisions contained in such an Order by virtue of the preceding provisions of this section.
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7
An Order in Council under this section shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and, if either House of Parliament, within the next twenty-eight days on which that House has sat after such an Order is laid before it, resolves that the Order be annulled, the Order shall thereupon cease to have effect except as respects things previously done or omitted to be done, without prejudice, however, to the making of a new Order.
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54†Short title and commencement.
1
This Act may be cited as the Crown Proceedings Act 1947.
2
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