- Draft legislation
This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Northern Ireland Statutory Rule: The Flags Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 No. 347
3.—(1) On the occasion of a visit to a government building by a Head of State other than Her Majesty the Queen, the Union flag may be flown at that building.
(2) Where on that occasion the Union flag is flown at that building and the building has more than one flag pole, the national flag of the country of the visiting Head of State may also be flown at that building on that occasion.
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