[5th December 1922]

1 Modification of Government of Ireland Act 1920.
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5 Provision as to relief from double taxation.
(1) If His Majesty in Council is pleased to declare—
(a) that under the law in force in the Irish Free State any tax is payable in respect of a subject of charge in respect or which a corresponding tax is payable also in Great Britain; and
(b) that arrangements as specified in the declaration have been made with the Government of the Irish Free State with a view to the granting of relief in cases where there is a charge both to the British Tax and to the Irish tax in respect of the same subject matter;
then, unless and until the declaration is revoked by His Majesty in Council, the arrangements specified therein shall, so far as they relate to the relief to be granted from the British tax, have effect as if enacted in this Act, but only if and so long as the arrangements, so far as they relate to the relief to be granted from the Irish tax, have the effect of law in the Irish Free State.
(2) Any declaration made by His Majesty in Council under this section shall be laid before the Commons House of Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and, if an Address is presented to His Majesty by that House within twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after the declaration is laid before it praying that the declaration may be revoked, His Majesty in Council may revoke the declaration, and the arrangements specified in the declaration shall thereupon cease to have effect, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new declaration.
(3) The obligation as to secrecy imposed by any enactment with regard to any tax to which any declaration made by His Majesty in Council under this section relates shall not prevent the disclosure to any authorised officer of the Government of the Irish Free State of such facts as may be necessary to enable relief to be duly given in accordance with the arrangements specified in the declaration.
(4) This section shall apply to Northern Ireland in like manner as it applies to Great Britain.

6 Power to adapt enactments, &c.
(1) His Majesty may, by Order in Council,—
(a) make such adaptations of any enactments so far as they relate to any of His Majesty’s Dominions other than the Irish Free State as may appear to him necessary or proper as a consequence of the establishment of the Irish Free State;
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(d) make such provision with respect to the management of the National Debt and Government Securities and Annuities (including India Stock) as may be necessary to secure that the management thereof shall not, except to such extent as may be authorised by the Order, be transacted within the Irish Free State; or to enable the business of the Bank of Ireland in relation thereto to be partly transacted at an office of the Bank in Northern Ireland, and in the latter case to apply in respect of any securities or annuities inscribed or registered in the books and registers kept at such office the provisions applicable in respect of securities and annuities inscribed or registered in the books and registers kept at the Bank of England or the Bank of Ireland;
and any such Order in Council may contain such supplemental, consequential, and incidental provisions as may appear necessary or proper for the purposes of the Order, and any such Order shall, subject to revocation or alteration by a subsequent Order, have effect as if enacted in this Act.
(2) Any Order in Council made under this section shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and if an Address is presented to His Majesty by either of those Houses within twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after any such Order is laid before it praying that the Order may be annulled, His Majesty may thereupon by Order in Council annul the same, and the Order so annulled shall forthwith become void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything which in the meantime may have been done thereunder.
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7 Miscellaneous provisions.
(1) It shall be lawful for any department of the British Government to make arrangements with any Minister of the Government of the Irish Free State whereunder any of the powers and duties of the Minister may be exercised and performed on his behalf by officers of that department, or whereunder any of the powers and duties of that department may be exercised and performed on behalf of that department by officers of the Minister, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed:
Provided that no such arrangement shall diminish in any respect the responsibility of the department by which the arrangement is made.
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8 Short title.
This Act may be cited as the Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act 1922 (Session 2).

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Modification of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 &c.

Governor of Northern Ireland.
1(1)There shall be a Governor of Northern Ireland, and the provisions of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 with respect to the Lord Lieutenant shall apply to the Governor of Northern Ireland and in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) and in any other enactment references to the Lord Lieutenant shall, in their application to Northern Ireland, be construed as references to the Governor of Northern Ireland.
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Privy Council and Great Seal of Northern Ireland.
2(1)There shall be a Privy Council of Northern Ireland, and anything which, prior to the first appointment of a Governor of Northern Ireland, might be done by, to, before, or with the advice or concurrence of the Privy Council of Ireland or any committee thereof may, as respects Northern Ireland after such appointment, be done by, to, before, or with the advice or concurrence of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland or a corresponding committee of that Council.
(2) The persons who are to be members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland shall be from time to time chosen and summoned by the Governor of Northern Ireland and sworn in as Privy Counsellors, and the Members may from time to time be removed by the Governor of Northern Ireland.
(3) In the application of the principal Act to Northern Ireland references to the Privy Council of Northern Ireland shall be substituted for references to the Privy Council of Ireland, . . .
(4) There shall be a Great Seal of Northern Ireland which shall be kept by the Governor of Northern Ireland and shall, after the first appointment of such Governor, be used for all matters in Northern Ireland for which the Great Seal of Ireland was theretofore used. Until a Great Seal of Northern Ireland is provided the private seal of the Governor of Northern Ireland may be used as that Great Seal.
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Abolition of High Court of Appeal and provisions consequential thereon.
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[3rd September 1939]

1 Allowances and pensions in respect of certain war injuries and war service injuries.
(1) The Minister may make a scheme, with the approval of the Treasury and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, providing for the making of payments in respect of the following injuries sustained during the period of the present emergency, namely—
(a) war injuries sustained by gainfully occupied persons (with such exceptions, if any, as may be specified in the scheme) and by persons of such other classes as may be so specified; and
(b) war services injuries sustained by civil defence volunteers.
(2) In respect of any such injury, a scheme may authorise the Minister, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the scheme, to make the following payments to or in respect of the person injured, namely—
(a) payments by way of allowance (hereafter in this Act referred to as “injury allowances”), which shall be payable only so long as the person injured is incapacitated for work by the injury and has not received any such payment as is mentioned in the next following paragraph; and
(b) payments by way of pension or grant, which shall be payable only where the injury causes serious and prolonged disablement or death.
(3) A scheme may empower the Minister to make regulations for giving effect to the purposes of the scheme.
(4) Any decision of the Minister as to the making, refusal or amount, or as to the continuance or discontinuance, of a payment under a scheme may be varied by a subsequent decision of the Minister, but save in so far as it is so varied shall be final and conclusive.
(5) All expenses incurred by the Minister in giving effect to a scheme shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

2 Procedure as to schemes.
(1) A scheme may provide that it shall come into operation, or shall be deemed to have come into operation, on such date as may be specified therein.
(2) A scheme may be amended or revoked by a subsequent scheme or by an order made by the Minister with the consent of the Treasury.
(3) Every scheme, and every order made under the last preceding subsection, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and if either House, within the period of forty days beginning with the day on which a scheme or such an order is laid before it, resolves that the scheme or order be annulled, it shall thenceforth become void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new scheme or order.
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(4) A scheme and any regulations made thereunder, and any order made under this Act, shall, for the purpose of section three of the Rules Publication Act 1893 (which relates to the printing of statutory rules), be deemed to be statutory rules within the meaning of that Act, but shall not be deemed to be or to contain such statutory rules for the purpose of any other provision of that Act.

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7 Assignments, &c., to be void.
Any assignment of, or charge on, and any agreement to assign or charge, any payment awarded or to be awarded under a scheme shall be void, and, on the bankruptcy of any person to whom such a payment has been awarded, the payment shall not pass to any trustee or other person acting on behalf of the creditors.

8 Interpretation.
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
  * “civil defence organisation” means any organisation established for civil defence purposes which is declared by a scheme to be a civil defence organisation for the purpose of this Act and the scheme;
  * “civil defence volunteer,” in relation to an injury, means a person certified by a responsible officer of a civil defence organisation to have been a member of that organisation at the time when the injury was sustained;
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  * “gainfully occupied person” means a person who is engaged in any trade, business, profession, office, employment or vocation and is wholly or substantially dependent thereon for a livelihood, or a person who, though temporarily unemployed, is normally so engaged and dependent;
  * “the Minister” means the Secretary of State;
  * “period of the present emergency” means the period beginning with the commencement of this Act, and ending with such date as His Majesty may by Order in Council declare to be the date on which the emergency that was the occasion of the passing of this Act came to an end;
  * “scheme” means a scheme made under this Act;
  * “war injuries” means physical injuries—
(a) caused by—
(i) the discharge of any missile (including liquids and gas); or
(ii) the use of any weapon, explosive or other noxious thing; or
(iii) the doing of any other injurious act;
either by the enemy or in combating the enemy or in repelling an imagined attack by the enemy; or
(b) caused by the impact on any person or property of any enemy aircraft, or any aircraft belonging to, or held by any person on behalf of or for the benefit of, His Majesty or any allied power, or any part of, or anything dropped from, any such aircraft;
  * “war service injury” in relation to a civil defence volunteer, means any physical injury which the Minister certifies to have been shown to his satisfaction to have arisen out of and in the course of the performance by the volunteer of his duties as a member of the civil defence organisation to which he belonged at the time when the injury was sustained, and (except in the case of a war injury) not to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment in any other capacity.
(2) No certificate shall be given by the Minister in relation to the definition of “war service injury” in the foregoing subsection, unless he has been furnished with a report about the injury in question by a responsible officer of the civil defence organisation of which the volunteer concerned was a member at the time when the injury was sustained and any such certificate may be revoked by the Minister at any time on new facts being brought to his notice.

9†Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939.
(2) It is hereby declared that this Act extends to Northern Ireland.
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[28th August 1907]

1 Provisions for the earlier notification of births.
The provisions of this section shall have effect in the area of any local authority . . .
(1) In the case of every child born . . . it shall be the duty of the father of the child, if he is actually residing in the house where the birth takes place at the time of its occurrence, and of any person in attendance upon the mother at the time of, or within six hours after, the birth, to give notice in writing of the birth to the chief administrative medical officer of the Health Board for the area in which the child is born, in manner provided by this section.
(2) Notice under this section shall be given by posting a prepaid letter or postcard addressed to the chief administrative medical officer of the Health Board at his office . . . giving the necessary information of the birth within thirty-six hours after the birth, or by delivering a written notice of the birth at the office . . . of that officer within the same time; and the local authority shall supply without charge prepaid addressed envelopes together with the forms of notice to any medical practitioner or midwife residing or practising in their area, who applies for the same.
(3) Any person who fails to give notice of a birth in accordance with this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding £25 level 1 on the standard scale: Provided that a person shall not be liable to a penalty under this provision if he satisfies the court that he had reasonable grounds to believe that notice had been duly given by some other person.
(4) The notification required to be made under this Act shall be in addition to and not in substitution for the requirements of any Act relating to the registration of births; and any registrar of births and deaths, . . . shall at all reasonable times have access to notices of births received by the chief administrative medical officer of the Health Board under this Act, or to any book in which those notices may be recorded, for the purpose of obtaining information concerning births which may have occurred in his sub-district.
(5) This section shall apply to any child which has issued forth from its mother after the expiration of the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy, whether alive or dead.
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2 Adoption of Act, and definition of local authority.
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(4) In this Act, the expression “local authority” means the council of a borough . . . and the council of an urban or a rural district, and the council of a county . . . :
Provided that—
(a) where the Act is adopted by the council of a county the county medical officer of health shall be substituted for the medical officer of health of the district, and the expenses of the execution of the Act shall be paid as general county expenses or special county expenses, as the case requires; and
(b) if, where the Act has been adopted by the council of a county for any county district, the council of the district, or, where the Act has been adopted by the council of a county district for their district, the council of the county, subsequently apply to the Local Government Board to be made the authority for the purposes of this Act, the Board may, if they think fit, make an order declaring that the Act shall take effect as if it had been adopted by the council of the county district instead of the council of the county, or by the council of the county instead of the council of the county district, as the case may be, and on any such order being made the Act shall take effect in accordance with the order.
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4 Application to Scotland.
In the application of this Act to Scotland—
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(3) . . . subsection four of section two shall not apply;
(4) An offence may be tried before the sheriff or before any magistrate of a royal, parliamentary, or police burgh officiating under the provisions of any local or general Police Act; and an offender failing to make payment of a penalty shall be liable to imprisonment in terms of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.

5 Application to Ireland.
In the application of this Act to Ireland, . . . the expression “sub-district” means a registrar’s district under the Acts relating to the registration of births.

6 Short title.
This Act may be cited as the Notification of Births Act 1907.

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