The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 No. 976

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18 U.K. Amendments relating to Article 15(1) to (4) etc

PART 1 U.K. Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Damages Act 1996 U.K.

55.  In section 1 (assumed rate of return on investment of damages) after subsection (5) insert— U.K.

“(6) In the application of this section to Northern Ireland—

(a) for the reference to the Lord Chancellor in subsections (1) and (4) there is substituted a reference to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland; and

(b) in subsection (4)—

(i) for the reference to the Treasury there is substituted a reference to the Department of Finance and Personnel in Northern Ireland; and

(ii) for “by statutory instrument” to “Parliament” there is substituted “by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979, and is subject to negative resolution within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954”.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 18 para. 55 in force at 12.4.2010, see art. 1(2)