This is a list of orders in Council for Northern Ireland which are primary legislation [1] for the region in the absence of a devolved legislature, and also for those powers not devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly . The statutory instruments containing the legislation are numbered in the main UK series (SI number) with a sub-series (NI number) denoting their position in the Northern Ireland legislation for the year.[2]
Drainage (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/69 NI 1 )
Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/70 NI 2 )
Not Allocated (NI 3)
Appropriation (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/413 NI 4)
Financial Provisions (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/414 NI 5 )
Firearms (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/415 NI 6 )
Museums (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/416 NI 7)
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/600 NI 8)
Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/601 NI 9)
Oaths and Declarations (Repeals) (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/603 NI 10)
Electoral Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/740 NI 11)
Recreation and Youth Service (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/961 NI 12)
Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/962 NI 13 )
Salaries (Comptroller and Auditor-General and Others) (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/1086 NI 14 )
Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/1227 NI 15)
Enterprise Ulster (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/1228 NI 16 )
Road Traffic (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/1229 NI 17)
Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/1323 NI 18 )
Mr. Speaker Neill’s Retirement (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/1321 NI 19)
Pig Production Development (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/1322 NI 20 )
Land Acquisition and Compensation (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/1896 NI 21 )
Not Allocated (NI 22)
Appropriation (No. 3) (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/2094 NI 23)
Ministries (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (SI 1973/2161 NI 24 ) Appropriation (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/416 NI 1)
Community Relations (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/417 NI 2 )
Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/418 NI 3)
Selective Employment Premium (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/424 NI 4)
Shipbuilding Industry (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/814 NI 5)
Recreation (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/815 NI 6)
Administration of Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/816 NI 7 )
Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1038 NI 8 )
Defective Premises (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1039 NI 9 )
Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1040 NI 10)
Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1212 NI 11)
Diseases of Animals (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1307 NI 12 )
Local Government (Reduction of General Grant) (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1308 NI 13)
Shipbuilding Industry (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1309 NI 14 )
Social Security Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1503 NI 15 )
Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1504 NI 16 )
Artificial Reproduction of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/1834 NI 17 )
Appropriation (No. 3) (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/2176 NI 18)
Bann Reservoir Company (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/2177 NI 19)
Firearms (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/2178 NI 20)
Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1975 (SI 1975/2179 NI 21) The Criminal Damage (Compensation) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2009 (SI 2009/884 NI 1 )
The Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2009 (SI 2009/3017 NI 2 ) References and notes [ edit ]
^ Section 21(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998 provides that, in that Act, Orders in Council made under section 38(1)(a) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 , or under the corresponding provision of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 , are primary legislation.
^ Holborn, Guy. Butterworths Legal Research Guide. Second Edition . Butterworths. 2001. Pages 84, 258, 259. "Northern Ireland Orders in Council" (1998) 29 The Law Librarian 97 (No 2, 2 June 1998). Dickson, Brice. Law in Northern Ireland. Third Edition. Hart Publishing. 2018. Para 3.28 at p 62 .