[Part 1A Department in the Charge of Minister Approved by Resolution of the Assembly by Virtue of Section 21A(3A)]

[Part 1A Department in the Charge of Minister Approved by Resolution of the Assembly by Virtue of Section 21A(3A)]

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(1)     This Part of this Schedule has effect in relation to a Northern Ireland department—

(a)     the functions of which consist wholly or mainly of devolved policing and justice functions, and

(b)     in relation to which an Act of the Assembly provides, by virtue of section 21A(3A), for it to be in the charge of a Northern Ireland Minister (the “relevant Ministerâ€) appointed by virtue of a nomination—

(i)     made by one or more members of the Assembly, and

(ii)     approved by a resolution of the Assembly passed with the support of a majority of the members voting on the motion for the resolution, a majority of the designated Nationalists voting and a majority of the designated Unionists voting.

(2)     In this paragraph “devolved policing and justice function†has the same meaning as in section 21A (see subsection (8) of that section).

[3B Modification of section 16A

Section 16A(3) has effect as if, for paragraph (b) (and the word “and†before it) there were substituted—

“(aa)     once those offices have been filled, the relevant Ministerial office (within

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