Department of Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 No. 3

Minister in charge of Department of Justice

2.—(1) The Department of Justice is to be in the charge of a Northern Ireland Minister appointed by virtue of a nomination—

(a) made by one or more members of the Assembly; and

(b) approved by a resolution of the Assembly passed with the support of—

(i) a majority of the members voting on the motion for the resolution,

(ii) a majority of the designated Nationalists voting, and

(iii) a majority of the designated Unionists voting.

(2) Expressions used in subsection (1) and in the Northern Ireland Act 1998 have the same meanings in that subsection as in that Act.