Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998

4 Procedural rules

(1) The Commission shall issue a set of rules (in this Act referred to as “the procedural rules”) for the purpose of regulating and prescribing the practice and procedure to be followed—

(a) by the Commission in exercising the functions mentioned in section 2(2); and

(b) by other persons or bodies in their dealings with the Commission in connection with the exercise of those functions.

(2) In particular (but without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1)) the procedural rules may—

(a) provide for the determination by the Commission of the particular cases in relation to which the functions mentioned in section 2(2) are to be exercised;

(b) prescribe the manner in which, and the time within which, specified actions may or must be taken (whether by the Commission or by other persons or bodies) for the purposes of the exercise by the Commission of those functions;

(c) require notice of specified determinations of the Commission made in the exercise of those functions to be published in such form and manner as may be specified.

(3) In subsection (2) “specified” means specified in the procedural rules.

(4) The Commission—

(a) shall keep the procedural rules under review; and

(b) may from time to time revise the whole or any part of the procedural rules and issue the revised procedural rules.

(5) Schedule 2 has effect in relation to the procedural rules.