British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Act 2006

Amendment of Principal Act.

2.— The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 2(1), by—

(i) the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “the supplementary Agreement” (inserted by section 2(a) of the Act of 1999):

“ ‘ supplementary Agreement of 1999 ’ means the Agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland constituted by the exchange of letters dated 18 June 1999, and 18 June 1999, the texts of which are set out in the Schedule to the British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Act 1999 ;”, and

(ii) the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘ supplementary Agreement of 2006 ’ means the Agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland constituted by the exchange of letters dated 25 July 2006 and 25 July 2006, the texts of which are set out in the Schedule to the British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Act 2006.”,

and

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4) of section 23 (inserted by section 2(b) of the Act of 1999):

“(4) Part 4 of each of the Annexes referred to in this section shall be construed in accordance with the supplementary Agreement of 1999 and the supplementary Agreement of 2006.”.