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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1933

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1933 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make further provision with respect to the administration
of certain public services in Northern Ireland, and for purposes
connected therewith.
[9th November 1933]
Transfer of Ordnance Survey from Ministry of Agriculture to Ministry
of Finance.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1933 - SECT 1

1. As from such day as the Governor of Northern Ireland may by
Order in the Privy Council of Northern Ireland appoint, the public
service in connection with the Ordnance Survey in Northern Ireland
shall be transferred from the Ministry of Agriculture to the
Ministry of Finance, and the last-mentioned Ministry shall be the
department of the Government of Northern Ireland for the
administration of that service.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1933 - SECT 2
Modification of enactments as to reports and returns.

2.(1) Where a report or return of any proceedings of a Ministry of
Northern Ireland, or of an officer of any such Ministry, is
required by any enactment to be made annually, or to be laid
annually before Parliament, it shall be a sufficient compliance with
that requirement if the report or return is made or laid before
Parliament (as the case may be) at intervals longer than a year
but not in any case longer than three years.

(2) Where such enactment requires that particular returns or
statistical information shall be included in the report or return,
that requirement may be modified by the Ministry by whom the public
service in question is administered to such extent as that Ministry
may consider reasonable, having regard to the expense of such
inclusion.

(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the making, or laying
before the House of Commons or both Houses of Parliament, of any
report or return so far as it relates to, or includes, accounts of
the receipt and expenditure of public moneys.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1933 - SECT 3
Adaptations of law as to administrative matters.

3.(1) References in any enactment to Belfast, where they occur in
relation to departments or offices of the Government of Northern
Ireland for the administration of any public service, shall be
construed as including, if the context so requires, references to
the Administrative Buildings at Stormont occupied by the said
Government.

In this sub-section the expression "enactment" means an enactment of
the United Kingdom Parliament

(a)relating to or affecting any Irish service in Northern Ireland;
and

(b)passed before the appointed day for the coming into operation of
the provisions of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, with respect
to that service; and

(c)adapted or modified in its application to Northern Ireland by any
Order made by His Majesty in Council under the said Act;

(2) Orders made by the Ministry of Finance under section two of
the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, shall be published in the
Belfast Gazette and not in the London Gazette, and the said section
shall, in its application to Irish services in Northern Ireland,
have effect accordingly.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1933 - SECT 4
Adaptation of references to the Lord Lieutenant in Acts of Northern
Ireland Parliament.

4. In any Act passed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland before
the eighth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two
(including enactments applied by or incorporated with any such Act),
references to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland shall, unless the
context otherwise requires, be construed as references to the
Governor of Northern Ireland.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1933 - SECT 5
Short title.

5. This Act may be cited as the Administrative Provisions Act
(Northern Ireland), 1933.