Post Office Act 1953

88 Application to Northern Ireland-general

(1) The following provisions of this section shall have effect for the purposes of the application of this Act to Northern Ireland.

(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings respectively—

• " enactment " includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland;

• " public service vehicle " means a public service vehicle within the meaning of the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Acts (Northern Ireland), 1926 to 1945, not being a vehicle licensed as a motor hackney carriage pursuant to regulations for the time being in force under Part II of the Motor Vehicles (Traffic and Regulation) Act (Northern Ireland), 1926;

• " summary conviction " means conviction in accordance with the enactments for the time being in force in Northern Ireland relating to summary jurisdiction ;

• " Transport Tribunal ", except in section twenty-nine of this Act, means the Transport Tribunal for Northern Ireland set up under the Transport Act (Northern Ireland), 1948.

(3) Any reference in this Act to any enactment of the Parliament of the United Kingdom shall be construed as a reference to that .enactment as it applies in Northern Ireland.

(4) Section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889, shall have effect as if the expressions " Act" and " enactment" therein included enactments of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.