Subordinate legislation
3.—(1) A statutory rule which–
(a)is made before the appointed day; and
(b)would, but for this paragraph, have been liable to be annulled or capable of being revoked in pursuance of a resolution, motion or address of the Assembly,
shall not be so annulled or revoked.
(2) So much of any statutory provision as makes it a condition for the continuing of any statutory rule in operation that it is approved by a resolution of the Assembly shall not apply in relation to any statutory rule made before the appointed day.
(3) Where immediately before the appointed day a statutory rule is, by virtue of paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974(1), liable to be annulled in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament, it shall on that day cease to be so liable.
(4) In this Article “statutory rule” has the same meaning as in the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979(2).