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(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Government (Boundaries) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), this Order comes into operation one week after the date on which it is made.
(3) Article 3 comes into operation—
(a)for the purposes of enabling the Department and the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner to perform their functions under section 50 of, and Schedule 4 to, the principal Act (as substituted by Article 4), one week after the date on which this Order is made;
(b)for other purposes on such date or dates as the Department may by order appoint.
(4) Article 5(1) and the repeal, by Article 5(5) and Schedule 2, of the Local Government Boundaries Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 (c. 9) come into operation on such date or dates as the Department may by order appoint.
(5) An order under this Article may contain such transitional or transitory provisions and such savings as appear to the Department to be necessary or expedient.