Northern Ireland Act 1947

8Cesser of reservation of registration of deeds

(1)The registration of deeds shall cease to-be a reserved matter for the purposes of the principal Act, and accordingly.—

(a)paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section nine of that Act (which specifies the registration of deeds as a reserved matter) shall cease to have effect;

(b)the public services in connection with the administration of the registration of deeds in Northern Ireland shall, by virtue of this section, be transferred from the Government of the United Kingdom to the Government of Northern Ireland and shall cease to be reserved services and shall become Irish services ;

(c)the members of the staff of the Registry of Deeds for Northern Ireland shall become officers of the Government of Northern Ireland ; and

(d)so much of any Act passed after the appointed day as relates to the registration of deeds in Northern Ireland or to the registration of other instruments or the doing of any other thing at the said Registry shall, notwithstanding that that Act was so passed, be deemed, for the purposes of section six of the principal Act, to be a provision of an Act passed before that day:

Provided that no person becoming an officer of the Government of Northern Ireland by virtue of this subsection shall be in a worse position as respects tenure of office, remuneration or superannuation rights than he would have been if he had not become an officer of the Government of Northern Ireland, and any question arising under the preceding provisions of this proviso shall, in default of agreement, be referred to and determined by the Civil Service Committee for Northern Ireland whose determination shall be final and conclusive.

(2)Section sixty-nine of the principal Act (which empowers His Majesty to make, by Order in Council, regulations as well for matters for which it seems to Him necessary or proper to make provision for giving full effect to any provisions of that Act or to any future transfer under or by virtue of that Act of a reserved service as for the other matters mentioned in that section), shall have effect as if references to the said provisions included references to this section and as if the reference to any such transfer included a reference to the transfer of services effected by this section, and an Order in Council made under the said section sixty-nine by virtue of this subsection may, to such extent as it appears to His Majesty in Council to be requisite or expedient so to do in consequence of the enactment of this section, vary or revoke the Government of Ireland (Registration of Deeds in Northern Ireland) Order, 1923, or any other Irish Transfer Order.

(3)This section shall come into operation on such date as His Majesty may by Order in Council appoint.