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(1)In this Act the expression “the principal Act” means the M1Government of Ireland Act 1920 and the expressions “public inland transport facilities” and “port facilities” mean, in relation to a law made by the Parliament of Northern Ireland, such facilities as defined by that law; and expressions used in this Act to which meanings are assigned by the principal Act for the purposes thereof have those meanings for the purposes of this Act.
(2)References in this Act to the appointed day (except in the case of the reference thereto in section three of this Act) are references to the day appointed under the principal Act for the purposes of section six thereof (that is to say, the third day of May, ninteen hundred and twenty-one) and, in the said excepted case, the reference is one to the day so appointed for the purposes of the enactment mentioned in the said section three (that is to say, the twenty-second day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one).
(3)For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that any reference to an authority in this Act (except in a provision thereof where the context otherwise requires) . . . F1 includes a reference to a department of the Government of Northern Ireland and to a Minister of Northern Ireland.
(4)References in this Act to any other enactment shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any subsequent enactment, including this Act.
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F1Words repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I
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This Act may be cited as the Northern Ireland Act 1947.
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