The Northern Ireland (Modification of Enactments—No. 1) Order 1973

Transfer of functions relating to Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland and amendment of certain enactments relating to accounts, etc

6.—(1) The functions, immediately before the appointed day, of the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland under the enactments specified in Schedule 4 are hereby transferred to the Comptroller and Auditor General in so far as those functions relate to accounts or statements as respects any period falling after the appointed day.

(2) A clerk of the Crown and peace shall keep the accounts referred to in section 101 of the County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 separately in relation to so much of the financial year ending in 1974 as relates to the period ending with the appointed day and as relates to the period beginning with the appointed day and ending with the expiration of that financial year.

(3) In section 12 of the Legal Aid and Advice Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 any reference to a financial year shall be construed, in relation to the financial year ending in 1974, as a reference to the period between the beginning of that financial year and ending immediately before the appointed day and the period beginning with that day and ending with the expiration of that financial year.

(4) In section 7 of the Judgments (Enforcement) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 any reference to a financial year (except the first reference in subsection (4)) shall be construed, in relation to the financial year ending in 1974, as a reference to the period between the beginning of that year and ending immediately before the appointed day and the period beginning with that day and ending with the expiration of that financial year.

(5) In section 29 of the Police Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 the reference to a financial year shall be construed, in relation to the financial year ending in 1974, as a reference to the period between the beginning of that year and ending immediately before the appointed day and the period beginning with that day and ending with the expiration of that financial year.

(6) The Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland or, as the case may be, a Northern Ireland department shall not lay before the Assembly—

(a) a statement (or a report relating thereto) mentioned in section 12(5) of the Legal Aid and Advice Act (Northern Ireland) 1965;

(b) a statement mentioned in section 7 of the Judgments (Enforcement) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969;

(c) copies of the statements mentioned in section 29 of the Police Act (Northern Ireland) 1970;

(d) copies of the accounts and reports mentioned in section 3 of the Northern Ireland (Financial Provisions) Act 1972,

which deals or deal with a financial year falling before the appointed day or such part of a financial year as falls before that day.