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N.I.Meaning of particular words and phrases

41Definitions for parliamentary purposes.N.I.

(1)In an enactment the expression—

F3[(2)In any Act passed after the thirtieth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty, “statutory period” means a period comprising—

(a)ten days on which the [F4 Assembly] has sat; or

(b)…

F5(c)thirty days;

whichever period is the longest, such days being reckoned without regard to whether they occur during one or more than one session of the same [F4 Assembly] or of different [F4 Assemblies] …F5].

[F2(3)Where, under any enactment, a statutory instrument or statutory document is required to be laid before the Assembly, the delivery of a copy of the instrument or document to the Business Office of the Assembly on any day during the existence of an Assembly shall for all purposes be deemed to be the laying of it before the Assembly.]

(4)The expression “subject to affirmative resolution” when used in relation to any statutory instruments or statutory documents shall mean that those instruments or documents shall not come into operation unless and until affirmed by a resolution of[F2 the Assembly].

Subs. (5) rep. by SI 1999/663

(6)The expression “subject to negative resolution” when used in relation to any statutory instruments or statutory documents shall mean that those instruments or documents shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before[F2 the Assembly, and if the Assembly], within the statutory period next after any such instrument or document has been so laid, resolves that the instrument or document shall be annulled, the instrument or document shall be void as from the date of the resolution, but without prejudice to the validity of anything done thereunder or to the making of a new instrument or document.

Subs. (7) rep. by SI 1999/663

F1SI 1973/2163

F2SI 1999/663

F4SI 1973/2163

F5SI 1973/2163

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

42Definitions for judicial purposes.N.I.

(1)In an enactment the expression—

(2)Where an enactment provides that any appeal, application, proceeding or other matter arising thereunder may be heard or determined by a county court, …F11[F12 or a magistrates' court, without] specifying any particular county court …F11[F12 or magistrates' court, the matter] may be heard and determined by such county court, …F11[F12 or magistrates' court (as] the case may be) as may be prescribed, in the case of a county court …F11 by county court rules, or in the case of[F12 a magistrates' court, by magistrates' courts rules or, if] no such court is so prescribed, by the county court, …F11[F12 or magistrates' court (as] the case may be) having jurisdiction over the whole or any part of the division or district or place in which the matter arises or, if the matter relates to any premises, in which those premises are situated.

(3)In an enactment the expression—

(4)In an enactment the expression—

[F16(5)In an enactment the expression “industrial tribunal” means a tribunal established under Article 3 of the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.]

F6prosp. subst. by 2005 c.4

F13SLR 1973

43Definitions for official purposes.N.I.

(1)In an enactment the expression—

(2)In an enactment the expression—

F18SI 1999/663

F20SRO (NI) 1972/253

Marginal Citations

[F2543ADefinitions in connection with police.N.I.

In an enactment—

44Definitions for local government purposes.N.I.

In an enactment the expression—

F26SI 1999/663

F30prosp. subst. by 2005 NI 18

45References relating to land.N.I.

(1)In any enactment passed after the commencement of this Act the expression—

(a)“land” shall include—

(i)messuages, tenements and hereditaments of any tenure;

(ii)land covered by water;

(iii)any estate in land or water; and

(iv)houses or other buildings or structures whatsoever;

(b)“registered land” shall mean land the title to which is registered under [F32Part III of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970]M8; and

(c)“unregistered land” shall mean land the title to which is not registered under [F32Part III of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970].

(2)In any enactment passed after the commencement of this Act “estate”, when used with reference to land, includes any legal or equitable estate or interest, easement, right, title, claim, demand, charge, lien or encumbrance in, over, to or in respect of the land.

(3)Where an enactment passed after the commencement of this Act provides that a person may dispose of land, that person may deal with the land in any of the following ways—

(a)sell it;

(b)lease, let it or grant it in fee farm;

(c)exchange it, giving or receiving money for equality of exchange;

(d)if leasehold, surrender it;

(e)grant a licence to use it for any purpose or for such purposes as are mentioned in the licence; or

(f)grant (by way of sale, lease, letting or licence) any easement, profit or right in respect of it.

Marginal Citations

46Miscellaneous definitions.N.I.

(1)In an enactment the expression—

(2)In an enactment passed or made after the commencement of this Act the expression—

[F34(3)In any enactment passed or made after the day appointed for the commencement of Parts II and III of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, the following expressions shall have the same meaning as in that Act—

(4)In any enactment, whenever passed or made, any reference to a Minister of a Northern Ireland department shall, in the case of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister, be construed as a reference to the First Minister and deputy First Minister acting jointly.]

F34SI 1999/663

F38Definition ext. (costs in criminal cases), 1968 c. 10 (NI)