Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979

The Statutory Rules Order 1979 is an order in Council for Northern Ireland of the United Kingdom Parliament which governs the making of statutory rules.
The order repeals the Statutory Rules Act (Northern Ireland) 1958, replacing all references to it in existing legislation with references to the order.
The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 provides a similar function for statutory instruments under the acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Previously the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 provided a similar for Welsh statutory instruments and Scottish statutory instruments.

Definitions

The act defines statutory rules as "orders, rules, regulations or byelaws" if the power is conferred by:

any act of the Parliament of Northern unless the power is to be expressed by statutory instrument
any act or measure of the Assembly, unless the power is expressed to be exercisable by statutory instrument
any act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed before 1st January 1974, if the power relates to any matter in respect of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland had power to make laws and is not expressed to be exercisable by statutory instrument;
any act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after 1st January 1974, if the power is expressed to be exercisable by statutory rule

Draft statutory rules may be published.

An examiner considers all statutory rules and releases an annual report.

The individual committees of the Northern Ireland Assembly consider statutory rules for their individual departments.

Statutory rules are required to be laid before the Assembly to come into force.

Originally the order stated that statutory rules are to be published by the Government Printer known today as the King's Printer. In the modern era, this means that they are available on legislation.gov.uk.