HC Deb 22 June 1988 vol 135 c623W
Sir John Biggs-Davison

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the Northern Ireland legislation passed since the abolition of the Northern Ireland Parliament(a) in the form of an Act of Parliament applying to the Province alone and (b) as part of a statute applying to the United Kingdom as a whole.

Mr. Stanley

As far as the first part of my hon. Friend's question is concerned, all, or most, of the provisions of the following Acts, passed since the abolition of the Northern Ireland Parliament in 1973, extend only to Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973

The list does not include certain Acts (such as the Northern Ireland Constitution and Constitution (Amendment) Acts 1973, the Northern Ireland Acts 1974 and 1982, and the Northern Ireland Loans Acts 1975 and 1985) which are of United Kingdom-wide extent, notwithstanding that they are principally concerned with Northern Ireland.

As far as the second part of the question is concerned, there are more than 500 Acts of Parliament that have been passed since 1973 that have application throughout the United Kingdom. Complete lists of such Acts are published in the annual volume of Northern Ireland statutes as table IV or V according to year.