AI-assisted research summary: This Act changes certain older provisions so that required statutory rules or instruments must be laid before Parliament, or the relevant House, as soon as they are made.
Legislative Procedure Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 An Act to make further provision with respect to the recital of consents required for the purposes of certain enactments, and with respect to the laying, and the period of laying, of subordinate legislation before Parliament; and for purposes connected therewith. S. 1 rep. by SLR 1976 Where a provision of any Act passed by Parliament before the commencement of this Act, or of any Act relating to a matter in respect of which Parliament has power to make laws and passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom at any time before the commencement of this Act, requires any statutory rules or other instrument to be laid before either or both of the Houses of Parliament within any specified period after the making of such rules or instrument or, if Parliament or, as the case may be, the House in question is not then sitting, within any specified period after the beginning of the then next meeting or session of Parliament or the next meeting of that House, as from the commencement of this Act that provision shall have effect as if for such requirement there were substituted the requirement that the rules or, as the case may be, the instrument shall be laid before Parliament or such House as soon as may be after they or it are or is made. In this section— “statutory rules” has the same meaning as in the [ Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 ]; and “instrument” has the same meaning as in section 1( c) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 . S. 3 substitutes s. 41(2) of 1954 c. 33 (NI) S. 4 rep. by 1979 NI 12 This Act may be cited as the Legislative Procedure Act (Northern Ireland) 1968. 1979 NI 1954 c.33 1979 NI 12