Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 Explanatory Notes

Part 5: Final Provisions

Section 92: Northern Ireland

173.This section will enable Northern Ireland to replicate the provisions of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the Act (mutual recognition of driving disqualification within the UK) during suspension of devolved government by way of Order in Council subject to negative resolution procedure.

Section 93: Supplementary and consequential provision

174.This section will allow the appropriate Minister (defined in subsection (2)) to make supplementary and consequential amendments to give full effect to any provision of the Act. Section 93 provides that any statutory instrument containing an order which adds to, replaces or omits any part of the text of an Act of Parliament, or as the case may be an Act of the Scottish Parliament, is not to be made unless it has been laid in draft before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament, or of the Scottish Parliament, whilst other orders will be subject to the negative resolution procedure.

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