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Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Organ and Tissue Donation) Act 2023

2023 CHAPTER 4

An Act to make provision to extend the period following the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 5 May 2022 during which Ministers may be appointed and after which the Secretary of State must propose a date for another election; to allow the Secretary of State to propose a date for another election before Ministers have been appointed; and to amend the procedure for making regulations defining permitted material for transplantation in Northern Ireland under section 3 of the Human Tissue Act 2004 in the period until the Presiding Officer and deputies of the Assembly are elected.

[28th February 2023]

Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1Extension of period for making Ministerial appointments

(1)The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022 is amended as follows.

(2)In section 1—

(a)in the title, omit “by six weeks”;

(b)for “19 January 2023” (as inserted by the Northern Ireland (Extension of Period for Making Ministerial Appointments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1296)) substitute “18 January 2024”.

(3)After section 1 insert—

1APower to propose date for a poll

(1)The Northern Ireland Act 1998 has effect as if, during the current post-election period, section 32 (extraordinary elections) were amended as follows—

(a)after subsection (3A), insert—

(3AA)At any time before the end of the period mentioned in section 16A(3), the Secretary of State may, if the offices mentioned there have not yet been filled, propose a date for the poll for the election of the next Assembly.;

(b)in subsection (3B), omit “16A(3) or”;

(c)in subsection (3D)(b), after “(3)” insert “, (3AA)”;

(d)in subsection (3E)(b), after “subsection” insert “(3AA) or”;

(e)in subsection (3F), in the words before paragraph (a), after “subsection” insert “(3AA) or”;

(f)in subsection (3G)—

(i)in the words before paragraph (a), after “(3)” insert “, (3AA)”;

(ii)after paragraph (a), insert—

(aa)in the case of a date proposed under subsection (3AA), withdraw the proposal before the end of the period referred to in section 16A(3), or;

(g)in subsection (4), in the words before paragraph (a), after “(3)” insert “, (3AA)”.

(2)In this section, “the current post-election period” has the meaning given in section 1.

(4)Omit section 2.

2Organ and tissue donation in Northern Ireland: procedure for regulations defining permitted material

(1)Section 52(4B) of the Human Tissue Act 2004 (draft affirmative procedure for regulations defining permitted material for the purposes of deemed consent to transplantation of human tissue in Northern Ireland) does not apply during the relevant period.

(2)Regulations made under section 3(9A) of that Act during the relevant period are subject to negative resolution within the meaning given by section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33 (N.I.)).

(3)In this section, the “relevant period” means the period—

(a)beginning when this Act is passed, and

(b)ending with the next day on which the Presiding Officer and deputies are in post having been elected under section 39(1) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.

3Extent, commencement and short title

(1)Section 1 and this section extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

(2)Section 2 extends to Northern Ireland only.

(3)This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.

(4)This Act may be cited as the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Organ and Tissue Donation) Act 2023.

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