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SOCIAL SERVICES (PARITY) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 1

1.(1) Where it appears to either House of Parliament that a change is
contemplated in the law of Great Britain relating to any benefit or
contribution payable under, or other matter dealt with by or under, any of the
enactments mentioned in Schedule 1, that House may resolve that a change
corresponding to any change that may be enacted by the Parliament of the
United Kingdom, with such modifications, if any, as are authorised by the
resolution, should be made in the law of Northern Ireland by Order in Council
made under the succeeding provisions of this section.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), where a resolution under subsection (1) has
been passed by one House of Parliament and the other House also passes a
resolution to the like effect the Governor may by Order in Council make
provision for the purposes of securing that there are made in the law of
Northern Ireland such changes as appear necessary or expedient to give effect
to those resolutions.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2), an Order in Council
under this section may contain such incidental, consequential, supplemental
and transitional provisions as may be necessary or expedient to give effect to
the Order or in consequence of any change in the law effected or to be
effected by or under the Order, including in particular

(a)provisions

(i)authorising the making of an order or orders appointing the day or days
(whether before or after the day on which the Order in Council is made) with
effect from which the Order in Council or any provision thereof is to come
into operation; or

(ii)authorising the making of orders or regulations (which orders or
regulations may provide that they shall come into force with effect from such
day or days before the making of the Order in Council or the day on which they
are made, but not before the day appointed under sub-paragraph (i) for the
coming into operation of the provision of the Order in Council under which
they are made, as may be provided in them, and shall require to be subject to
such control by Parliament as may be specified in the Order in Council) for
such purposes as are specified in the Order in Council; and

(b)such provisions for the modification, application, adaptation or repeal or
revocation of transferred provisions and statutory documents and for
administration and enforcement as are specified in the Order in Council.

(4) An Order in Council made under this section shall be laid before
Parliament after being made but shall (without prejudice to the validity of
anything done thereunder or to the making of a new Order) cease to have effect
upon the expiration of a period of six months from the date on which it was
made unless at some time before the expiration of that period the Order has
been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

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