Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2024

Commons bill Government Bill 2024-25 Act of Parliament

Passed โ€” Royal Assent 25 January 2024
Sponsor
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative)
+ 1 co-sponsor
  • Lord Caine (Conservative)
Introduced
24 January 2024
Royal Assent
25 January 2024
About this bill

A Bill to make provision to extend the period following the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 5 May 2022 during which Ministers may be appointed.

Parliamentary stages

Stages shown in blue link to the debate transcript. Not sure what these stages mean? How Parliament makes laws โ†’

Commons
โœ“ First reading 24 Jan 2024
โœ“ Second reading 24 Jan 2024โ†—
โœ“ Committee of the Whole House 24 Jan 2024โ†—
โœ“ Third reading 24 Jan 2024โ†—
Lords
โœ“ First reading 24 Jan 2024
โœ“ Second reading 24 Jan 2024โ†—
โœ“ Committee stage 24 Jan 2024โ†—
โœ“ Report stage 24 Jan 2024โ†—
โœ“ Third reading 24 Jan 2024โ†—
Final stages
โœ“ Royal Assent 25 Jan 2024

Some stage debates occurred before our Hansard archive begins (May 2025). Links marked โ†— go to Parliament's own Hansard for that date.

Parliamentary information from bills.parliament.uk โ†—, licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Explanatory Notes extracts are verbatim from Parliament's published documents.