SCHEDULES

[F1 SCHEDULE 12A U.K.Effect of application of section 95A(6) or (7)

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 12A inserted (7.1.2004) by Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Act 2003 (c. 25), ss. 10(3), 12; S.I. 2004/83, art. 2

Directions under section 30A(5): Northern Ireland Ministers and junior Ministers U.K.

1 (1) Paragraphs 2 to 4 apply where a direction under section 30A(5) ceases to have effect under section 95A(6) or (7). U.K.

(2) In those paragraphs “the relevant time” means the time when the direction so ceases to have effect.

2 (1) A person who holds office as a Northern Ireland Minister or junior Minister immediately before the relevant time shall cease at the relevant time to hold that office if another person— U.K.

(a) held that office immediately before the direction was given, but

(b) ceased to hold it by reason of his being excluded by the direction.

(2) That other person shall fill the vacancy if he remains eligible to hold that office.

3 U.K.If—

(a) an office of Northern Ireland Minister or junior Minister is vacant immediately before the relevant time, and

(b) immediately before the direction was given that office was held by a person who ceased to hold it by reason of his being excluded by the direction,

that person shall fill the vacancy if he remains eligible to hold that office.

4 U.K.Section 18(10) (and section 18(11)), and any provision made under section 19(3)(a) for the filling of vacancies, shall have effect subject to paragraphs 2 and 3.]