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Details of the Northern Ireland Office's Firearms Purchase Scheme, which closed on 31 December 2012.
Code of practice (Northern Ireland) for the authorisation and exercise of stop and search powers relating to section 47A of schedule 6B to the Terrorism Act 2000
Code of Practice (Northern Ireland) for the authorisation and exercise of stop and search powers under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Code of Practice laid in Parliament
Equality scheme for the Northern Ireland Office
A list of current polling districts for parliamentary elections in Northern Ireland, which the Chief Electoral Officer uses to set polling stations.
6 monthly update on the Northern Ireland Office equality scheme
Guidance for civil servants in the run up to the forthcoming elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly in March 2017.
Guidance on decision-making for Northern Ireland Departments during the temporary period for Northern Ireland Executive formation
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
The Secretary of State has today published draft guidance which is intended to support Northern Ireland departments in taking decisions in the absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The Secretary of State has today published guidance for NI Departments in accordance with section 4 of Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018.
The Secretary of State has issued guidance for the Victims' Payments Board. This guidance will support the independent Board when making decisions about applicants who have serious convictions or in other exceptional ci…
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
This instrument corrects deficiencies in Northern Ireland electoral law arising as a result of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The instrument amends the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962…
Guidance on decision-making for Northern Ireland Departments until an Executive is formed or for the six month period beginning with the day on which the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2022 is passed (6 Decem…
A Written Ministerial Statement by Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis, made on 19 July 2021.
Find proposed negative statutory instruments (SIs) under the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Before the SIs are formally 'laid' in Parliament, they have to go through a sifting process. A new committee in the House of…
Secretary of State's Guidance to the Independent Reporting Commission under section 2 (5) of the Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Act 2016
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