AI-assisted research summary: The Secretary of State may arrange for a die to be made for certain Northern Ireland documents, and an impression made with it gives the document the same validity as if it had been authenticated under the Great Seal of Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1945 An Act to make miscellaneous amendments in the law applicable to Northern Ireland and, as respects securities issued or guaranteed by the Government of Northern Ireland, to amend certain enactments relating to trustees and savings banks. The Secretary of State may from time to time cause to be provided a die, of such size as he may direct, having the same device as the observe of the Great Seal of Northern Ireland, and a die so provided shall be in his custody. An impression embossed by means of the die so provided on, or on a wafer or other material attached to, a document of any such class required to be or usually authenticated by, or passed under, the Great Seal of Northern Ireland as is, at the time of the issue of the document, designated for the purposes of this subsection by the Secretary of State, shall confer on the document the same validity in all respects as if it had been authenticated by, or passed under, the Great Seal of Northern Ireland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Compensation (Defence) Act, 1939, shall have effect as if the following subsection were added at the end of section eighteen thereof :— “ (4)Sections seven and nine of this Act shall have effect, in their application to proceedings in Northern Ireland before a tribunal constituted under this Act, as if for references to the Lord Chancellor and to the High Court there were respectively substituted references to the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and to the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland ”. This Act may be cited as the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1945. Ss. 1, 2 repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I Words substituted by virtue of Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 5 para. 4(1) Ss. 4–6 repealed by Trustee Investments Act 1961 (c. 62), Sch. 5 S. 7 repealed by Post Office Savings Bank Act 1954 (c. 62), Sch., and Trustee Savings Banks Act 1954 (c. 63), Sch. 3 S. 8 repealed by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23, SIF 38), s. 122, Sch. 7 Pt. I S. 9 repealed by Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 (c. 18) S. 10 repealed by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 3 Pt. II The text of s. 11 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991. 2 & 3 Geo. 5. c. 75. S. 12(2), Sch. repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 5)