§ After Clause 51, insert the following new clause:
§ Provisions as to Northern Ireland
§ (".—(1) The provisions of Part I and II of the Schedule to this Act (Provisions applicable to Northern Ireland) (being provisions corresponding respectively to Part I and section forty of this Act) shall apply to Northern Ireland and the enactments specified in Part III of that Schedule are hereby repealed as respects Northern Ireland.
§ (2) The provisions of the said Schedule shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument, and he may appoint different days for different purposes; but nothing in Part I of the said Schedule shall affect proceedings in respect of any cause of action arising before the coming into operation thereof.
§ (3) Section fifty of this Act shall extend to Northern Ireland.
§ (4) For the purposes of section six of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, this Act shall, so far as it relates to matters within the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, be deemed to be an Act passed before the appointed day within the meaning of that section.
§ (5) Save as provided by this section, this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.")
§ THE LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, the new clause in Amendment No. 56 deals with the provisions as to Northern Ireland, which again I have already mentioned. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in this Amendment.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.