Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland

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The Parliament Buildings of Northern IrelandThe Executive Committee met there.
The Parliament Buildings of Northern Ireland
The Executive Committee met there.

The Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland was the government of Northern Ireland created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Generally known as the cabinet or the Government, the Executive Committee existed from 1922 to 1972. It exercised executive authority vested in the monarch of the United Kingdom.

Under the Act the Executive Committee consisted of the ministers appointed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to head departments of state.[1] Ministers so chosen did not have to be members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland but were required to become members within six months.[2]

A subsequent amendment to the Act, which came into force in 1922, replaced the Lord Lieutenant with a new crown representative, the Governor of Northern Ireland.

Though the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 never provided for such an office, in practice the Executive Committee was headed by a Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. In theory the Executive Committee was not answerable to the House of Commons but held their positions "during the pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant".[3] In practice the Executive Committee was answerable to the democratically elected House of Commons of Northern Ireland.

The system of government created by the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 was first prorogued and then abolished by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1972-3.

The Executive Committee was based in the Stormont Parliament Buildings. Original plans to build a separate executive building were abandoned in the 1920s as a result of the economic difficulties that resulted from the Wall Street Crash.

  1. ^ Government of Ireland Act, Section 8.4.
  2. ^ Section 8.4 (b).
  3. ^ 8.4.(c)
 
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