1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), this Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Head of the Department may by order appoint.
(3) The following provisions shall come into operation on 1st April 1991, namely—
(a)this Article;
(b)Articles 2, 3, 4, 6, 29(1)(a) and (b), 30, 32 and 33;
(c)Schedule 1;
(d)Part I of Schedule 5 and Article 34 so far as it relates to that Part;
(e)Part I of Schedule 6 and Article 35 so far as it relates to that Part.
(4) An order under paragraph (2) may contain such transitional provisions and savings (whether or not involving the modification of any statutory provision) as appear to the Head of the Department necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into operation.
2.—(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(2) In this Order—
“goods” includes accommodation;
“the principal Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(2);
“services” includes services of any description, whether or not being services under the principal Order.
(3) Article 2(2) of the principal Order (interpretation) shall apply for the purposes of this Order as it applies for the purposes of that Order.