Northern Ireland Assembly
Northern Ireland Assembly
THE NORTHERN IRELAND (ROYAL ASSENT TO BILLS) ORDER 1999
The following Letters Patent were signed by His Majesty The King on 10 May 2024 in respect of the Hospital Parking Charges Bill (02/22-27).
“CHARLES THE THIRD by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, To the Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly GREETING:
WHEREAS you the Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have passed a Bill the short title of which is set out in the Schedule hereto but the said Bill does not become an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly without Our Royal Assent:
AND WHEREAS pursuant to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 the said Bill has been submitted to Us by the Rt Hon Chris Heaton-Harris MP one of Our Principal Secretaries of State for our Royal Assent;
We have therefore caused these Our Letters Patent to be made and have signed them and by them We give our Royal Assent to the said BILL COMMANDING Master Andrew Wells the Clerk of the Crown for Northern Ireland to seal these Our Letters with the Great Seal of Northern Ireland AND ALSO COMMANDING that these Our Letters be notified to the Presiding Officer of Northern Ireland Assembly;
AND FINALLY WE declare that, in accordance with the Northern Ireland Act 1998, at the beginning of the day on which Our Royal Assent has been notified as aforesaid the said Bill shall become an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent
WITNESS Ourself at Erskine House
on the 10th day of May
in the second year of Our Reign
By the King Himself Signed with His own Hand”
Schedule
A Bill to modify the operation of the Hospital Parking Charges Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 so as to postpone the ban on charging money for parking vehicles in hospital car parks
Schedule
Hospital Parking Charges Act (Northern Ireland) 2024