1(1)The enactments to which the several Parts of this Schedule hereinafter contained apply shall have effect, in their application to Northern Ireland, subject to the adaptations and modifications set out in this Schedule, save where inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 [1920 c.67] , or any enactment amending the same.N.I.
(2)Subject to the express adaptations and modifications made by this Schedule, the General Adaptation of Enactments (Northern Ireland) Order, 1921 [SRO 1921/1804] , and any other Order made by His Majesty in Council under the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, or any enactment amending the same, containing adaptations of general application, shall, if and so far as they are applicable to the enactments adapted by this Schedule, apply thereto in like manner as they apply to other enactments.
(3)The adaptations and modifications made by this Schedule shall apply to any order, scheme, rule, regulation or instrument made or issued under any of the enactments so adapted or modified and in force as respects Northern Ireland immediately before the appointed day, in like manner as they apply to the enactment under which it was made or issued: and any such order, scheme, rule, regulation or instrument shall continue in force as respects Northern Ireland in like manner and subject to the like powers of revocation and alteration as if it had been made or issued under the said enactment as so adapted and modified.
2N.I.References in this Act to any department of the Government of the United Kingdom shall be construed as including references to the Secretary of State, in any case where immediately before the appointed day the powers and duties of that department were, as respects Northern Ireland, exercisable by the Secretary of State in pursuance of an Order of His Majesty in Council.