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This Order sets electoral administration rules, including who acts as returning officer, when nomination papers may be delivered, and when polling takes place.
This provision sets local election timing, vacancy-filling steps, and the Chief Electoral Officer’s related duties, and it limits how election expenses may be paid.
This Act may be cited as the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968, and it is to be read with the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 as the two Acts together.
This Act sets the voting age at 18 or over and gives the Act its short title.
The Act says annual registers of parliamentary and local electors must be published every year starting with 1971.
The appropriate department may make orders to allow electronic communications or electronic storage, but only if it considers record availability will be no less satisfactory than with non-electronic methods.
Employers carrying on business in Northern Ireland must keep approved insurance for employee injury liability, and must follow certificate-display and production requirements when required. Some family-member and nonresident employee cases are exempt, and breaches can lead to offences and fines.
This Act changes enforcement powers for employment-agency records, updates Industrial Court membership rules, allows compensation awards for certain wage and redundancy losses, and sets commencement and repeal rules.
This Act updates Northern Ireland employment dispute procedures and adds a right for qualifying employees to request study or training time from their employer.
This provision adds early conciliation steps before certain tribunal claims, gives the Department power to make related regulations, and introduces duties on employers for gender pay reporting, careers guidance, and some whistleblowing and zero-hours matters.
The Department must arrange employment and training support, including careers guidance, and must not let its arrangements include employment for sexual purposes.
The Authority can set gas performance standards, and gas suppliers and gas conveyors must comply, compensate affected customers where required, report information, and follow approved complaint procedures.
This Order creates Enterprise Ulster, gives the Ministry control powers, and requires the Corporation to keep accounts, report, and allow inspection; it also sets rules for land entry, acquisition, and obstruction offences.
The Department gets broad powers to make environmental regulations, but must consult relevant people first and has specific duties to publish drafts, keep and publish an authorised-fuels list, and prepare and review a code of practice.
Women’s employment contracts in Northern Ireland are treated as including an equality clause if one is missing, and that clause can equalize certain pay and term differences against men in the same employment.
The Act changes evidence rules for proving certain documents, creates a 20-year document presumption, lets court rules allow proof by affidavit in civil cases, and exempts wills and other testamentary documents from the attestation-proof rule.
An accused person generally cannot present alibi evidence at trial unless the court grants leave and the accused has given the required written notice.
The Comptroller and Auditor-General must examine certain revenue accounts, check that the relevant procedures are working, and report the results to the House of Commons. The accounts must be prepared under directions issued by the Department, and the Comptroller and Auditor-General cannot hold office after age 65.
The Ministry of Finance must prepare annual Consolidated Fund accounts and lay certified copies before the House of Commons by the stated deadlines. The Act also gives the Ministry powers over capital receipts, investments, borrowing, and temporary overdrafts.
The Act lets the Department for Infrastructure or its Minister make certain planning-related decisions without going back to the Executive Committee, and it starts the day after Royal Assent.
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