The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010

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30.—(1) Amend section 35 (reviews of sentencing: scope of Part 4) as follows.

(2) After subsection (9) insert—

(9A) Any reference in subsection (4) to the Secretary of State must be construed as a reference to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland.

(3) In subsection (10), in the text substituted for subsection (5), for the words from “such statutory rule” to “accordingly” substitute “such order shall be subject to negative resolution (within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1))”.

(1)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.). Section 41(6) was amended by S.I. 1999/663.