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Title, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the District Electoral Areas Commissioner (Northern Ireland)(Amendment) Order 2007 and shall come into force on the expiry of fourteen days beginning with the day on which the Order was made.

(2) In this Order “the 1984 Order” means the District Electoral Areas Commissioner (Northern Ireland) Order 1984(1).

(1)

S.I.1984/360. The 1984 Order was made under section 38(1)(a) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36). Section 84 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47) re-enacts this provision and, in reliance on section 17(2)(a) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), is used to amend the 1984 Order.