The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 No. 976

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15 U.K. Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

10.  In section 15 (reports relating to directions under section 12)— U.K.

(a) in subsection (4)(b) after “Scottish Ministers” insert “and the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland”; and

(b) after subsection (5) insert—

“(6) The Department of Justice in Northern Ireland must lay before the Northern Ireland Assembly any copy of a report sent to it under subsection (4).

(7) Section 41(3) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies for the purposes of subsection (6) in relation to the laying of a copy of a report as it applies in relation to the laying of a statutory document under an enactment.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 15 para. 10 in force at 12.4.2010, see art. 1(2)