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MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921

MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to provide for the administration of certain public services
in Northern Ireland by the Departments established by the Lord
Lieutenant, and for purposes connected therewith.{1}
[14th December 1921]
Administration of public services.

MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 1

1.(1) The branches specified in the schedule to this Act in
connection with the Ministries named in that schedule (being branches
for the establishment of which provision was made by the direction
of the Lord Lieutenant dated the seventh day of June, nineteen
hundred and twenty-one) shall not be established, or, if established
prior to the commencement of this Act, shall cease to exist, and
any Irish service which would pursuant to that direction be
administered in Northern Ireland by any such branch shall be
administered by the appropriate Ministry, and that direction is
hereby altered accordingly.

(2) References in any Irish Transfer Order made under the Government
of Ireland Act, 1920, to any branch of a Department of the
Government of Northern Ireland shall cease to have effect.

(3) The Minister of each Ministry named as aforesaid may distribute
the business of his Ministry amongst the various officers thereof in
such manner as he thinks fit, and may, if he thinks fit, by
Minute to be laid before both Houses of Parliament, assign any
specified powers or duties of that Ministry to such officer,
officers or committee as he may appoint to exercise or perform the
same, either:

(a)under the designation of the branch of that Ministry by which
such powers or duties would, but for the passing of this Act, have
been required by law to be exercised or performed; or

(b)under any other designation having reference to such powers or
duties:

Provided always that, where any powers or duties of a Ministry have
been so assigned, their exercise or performance shall remain subject
to the direction and control of the Minister, who shall continue to
be responsible for the administration of the service in relation to
which the powers are exercised or the duties performed.

MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 2
Seal, style, and acts of Ministry.

2. The following provisions shall have effect with respect to each
Ministry named as aforesaid, that is to say:

(1)The Ministry shall be a body corporate with a capacity to
acquire and hold land for the purpose of the powers or duties of
the Ministry, and shall be styled by the name set forth in the
first column of the schedule to this Act....

(2)The Ministry shall have an official seal which shall be
officially and judically noticed, and that seal shall be
authenticated by the signature of the Minister or of a secretary or
assistant secretary of the Ministry.

(3)In the execution or performance of its powers or duties the
Ministry shall adopt and use the style and seal of the Ministry:

Provided that the Minister may authorise the use of a special
designation by any officer, officers or committee to whom any
specified powers or duties have been assigned by him under this
Act.

(4)Subject to the provisions of this Act, any power or duty of the
Ministry may be exercised or performed by the Minister or by a
secretary or assistant secretary of the Ministry.

(5)The provisions of this Act with respect to a secretary or
assistant secretary of the Ministry shall apply to

(a)any officer of the Ministry who is appointed to be secretary or
assistant secretary thereof; and

(b)any parliamentary secretary or assistant parliamentary secretary of
the Ministry.

MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 3
Evidence of acts of Ministry.

3.(1) Every document purporting to be a regulation, order, licence,
certificate or other instrument issued by any Ministry named as
aforesaid, and to be sealed with the seal of the Ministry
authenticated in manner provided by this Act, or purporting to be
signed by a secretary or assistant secretary of the Ministry or
other officer of the Ministry authorised by the Minister in that
behalf, shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be such
regulation, order, licence, certificate or other instrument without
further proof, unless the contrary is shown.

(2) A certificate signed by the Minister or by a secretary or
assistant secretary of such Ministry that any regulation, order,
licence, certificate or other instrument purporting to be made or
issued by the Ministry is so made or issued shall be conclusive
evidence of the facts so certified.

(3) The Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, as amended by the
Documentary Evidence Act, 1882, shall apply to such Ministry in like
manner as if

(a)the Ministry were mentioned in the first column of the Schedule
to the first-mentioned Act, and the Minister or a secretary or
assistant secretary of the Ministry were mentioned in the second
column of that Schedule;

(b)the regulations referred to in those Acts included any document
issued by the Ministry;

(c)the term "Government Printer" used in those Acts included any
printer purporting to be the printer authorised to print the
statutes of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or otherwise to be
the Government Printer of Northern Ireland; and

(d)the term "Gazette" used in those Acts included the Belfast
Gazette.

MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 4
Commencement and effect of Act.

4.(1) This Act shall come into operation on the passing thereof,
but without prejudice to the administration of any service until
that service has been transferred to the Government of Northern
Ireland.

(2) Any matter or thing which would at the passing of this Act
have been subject to any enactments contained therein, if the
provisions of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, had then come
into operation with respect to such matter or thing, shall, as from
the appointed day for the coming into operation of those provisions,
be subject to such enactments, and this Act shall thereupon have
effect accordingly.

MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN IRELAND ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 5
Short title.

5. This Act may be cited as the Ministries of Northern Ireland
Act, 1921 [N.I.].2.3.4.5.6.