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PART VIIGeneral

65General application to Northern Ireland

(1)The following provisions shall, in addition to any express provision for the application to Northern Ireland of any provision of this Act, have effect for the general application of this Act to Northern Ireland, that is to say—

(a)any reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as it has effect in Northern Ireland;

(b)any reference to an Act of Parliament shall be construed as including a reference to an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland; and " enactment" includes an enactment of that Parliament;

(c)" summary conviction" means conviction subject to and in accordance with the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and any Act amending that Act;

(d)any reference to the High Court shall be construed as a reference to the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland.

(2)His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that any of the provisions of this Act set out in Part I of the Ninth Schedule to this Act, shall, in the application of that provision to Northern Ireland, have effect subject to such adaptations as may be specified in the Order.

Part VI of this Act applies to this subsection.

(3)The authorisation required for the compulsory purchase by an authority of land in Northern Ireland under subsection (2) of section nineteen of this Act shall be a compulsory purchase order made by that authority and confirmed by the Minister, and the provisions of the Tenth Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to every such order; and the provisions of this subsection and that Schedule may be adapted under the last foregoing subsection.

(4)The disputes which by this Act are directed to be determined by the Lands Tribunal shall, in the application of this Act to Northern Ireland, be determined by an official arbitrator appointed under section one of the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, and the arbitrator shall be selected in accordance with rules made by the Reference Committee under the said section one; and, save in the case of a dispute under subsection (3) of section nine, rules so made may make provision with respect to the reference and determination of the dispute and may apply any of the provisions of sections three to six of the said Act of 1919 with such modifications as may be necessary.