Legal Aid and Coroners‘ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014

PART 3 N.I.SUPPLEMENTARY

Application to the CrownN.I.

9  This Act binds the Crown to the full extent authorised or permitted by the constitutional laws of Northern Ireland.

Supplementary, incidental or consequential provisionN.I.

10—(1) The Department may by order make such supplementary, incidental or consequential provision as it considers appropriate for the general purposes, or any particular purpose, of this Act, or in consequence of, or for giving full effect to, any provision made by this Act.

(2) An order under subsection (1) may amend, repeal, revoke or otherwise modify any statutory provision (including this Act).

(3) No order may be made under this section which amends or repeals a provision of an Act of Parliament or Northern Ireland legislation unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Assembly.

(4) Any other order under this section is subject to negative resolution.

RepealsN.I.

11  Schedule3 contains repeals.

Commencement Information

I1S. 11 in operation at 1.4.2015 for specified purposes by S.R. 2015/193, art. 2(c)

I2S. 11 in operation at 1.11.2015 by S.R. 2015/359, art. 2(c)

CommencementN.I.

12—(1) Except as provided by subsection (2), the provisions of this Act come into operation on such day or days as the Department may by order appoint.

(2) The following provisions come into operation on the day after this Act receives Royal Assent—

(a)sections 9 and 10;

(b)this section;

(c)section 13;

(d)in Schedule 2—

(i)paragraph 6(1);

(ii)paragraph 6(9) to (22);

(iii)paragraph 6(31) and (35);

(iv)paragraph 6(37)(c);

(v)paragraph 6(38);

(vi)paragraph 6(42), in so far as it relates to the omission of paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the 2003 Order;

(vii)paragraph 6(43);

(viii)paragraph 6(44)(a) to (c) and (e);

(and section 6 so far as relating to those provisions).

(3) An order under this section may contain such transitional or transitory provisions (including modifications of this Act) and such savings as appear to the Department to be necessary or expedient in connection with any provision brought into operation by the order.

Short titleN.I.

13  This Act may be cited as the Legal Aid and Coroners' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014.