Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979

Functions of the Department N.I.

6.—(1) The Department shall, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Order and of regulations, cause statutory rules sent to the Department under Article 5 for registration under this Order—

(a) to be registered; and

(b) to be numbered consecutively as nearly as may be in the order in which they are received by the Department, a separate series of numbers being kept for each year.

(2) The Department shall prepare and publish an annual volume of statutory rules in respect of each year in which there shall, so far as is practicable, be printed and indexed in such manner as the Department may think proper all statutory rules made in that year other than—

(a) statutory rules which the rule-making authority considers to be local;

(b) statutory rules which have ceased to be in force at the time of the publication or which, being of a temporary character, are likely to cease to be in force within six months thereafter;

(c) statutory rules which are exempted from the requirements of Article 5(2)( c);

(d) statutory rules which by virtue of regulations are exempted from the requirements of this paragraph.

(3) The Department—

(a) shall publish in each annual volume a list, in such form as the Department thinks proper, of all such statutory rules referred to in paragraph (2)( a) to ( d) as have been made during the year to which the volume relates and sent to the Department for registration, and

(b) may also publish in the annual volumes such further relevant information or other matter as the Department thinks proper.

(4) The Department may prepare and publish such separate indexes of the annual volumes of statutory rules as it thinks proper.