Template:Cite legislation Northern Ireland
Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]A template for citing the legislation of the Northern Ireland Assembly, as provided by legislation.gov.uk.
Usage
Setting the brief parameter to yes suppresses the output of "as amended", "as made", and "from Legislation.gov.uk".
Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly
{{Cite legislation Northern Ireland
| type = act
| year =
| chapter =
| title =
}}
- Northern Ireland Assembly. {{{title}}}as amended (see also enacted form), from legislation.gov.uk.
Northern Ireland Statutory Rules
{{Cite legislation Northern Ireland
| type = nisr
| year =
| number =
| title =
}}
- Northern Ireland Assembly. {{{title}}} as amended (see also as made), from legislation.gov.uk.
Northern Ireland Orders in Council (Statutory Instruments)
{{Cite legislation Northern Ireland
| type = nisi
| year =
| chapter =
| title =
}}
- Privy Council of the United Kingdom. {{{title}}} as amended (see also as made), from legislation.gov.uk.
See also
- {{Cite legislation UK}}: for UK Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments.
- {{Cite legislation Scotland}}: for Acts of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Statutory Instruments.
- {{Cite legislation Wales}}: handles Acts of the Senedd Cymru, Welsh Statutory Instruments, and Acts and Measures of the National Assembly of Wales.
Cite legislation pertaining to Northern Ireland.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| brief | brief | If set to 'yes', cite only the amended Act; omit attribution, enacted form, and website.
| Unknown | optional |
| legislature | legislature | The enacting legislature. Usually this is automatically filled in based on enactment type, but can be overridden if the default is incorrect. Use the special value 'omit' to omit it completely.
| Unknown | optional |
| type | type | Type of legislation. This is the code in the URL at legislation.gov.uk. Additionally 'act' is a synonym for 'nia'.
| Unknown | required |
| regnal_url | regnal_url | The part of the URL encoding the monarch. Required for Acts of the Irish Parliament, meaningless (and ignored) otherwise.
| Unknown | optional |
| year_url | year_url | The regnal year as it appears in the URL, between the monarch and the chapter number. Required for Acts of the Irish Parliament, meaningless (and ignored) otherwise.
| Unknown | suggested |
| chapter | chapter | Chapter number. Required for Acts and Measures. | Unknown | suggested |
| title | title | Short title. Include the year of enactment, which is an integral part of the short title.
| Unknown | required |
| year | year | Year of enactment. This is used to construct the URL, except for Acts of the Irish Parliament where it is the part of the regnal year before the monarch (e.g. "21 & 22").
| Unknown | required |
| regnal | regnal | Name of the monarch as it appears in the citation, between the year and the chapter number. Required for Acts of the Irish Parliament, meaningless (and ignored) otherwise.
| Unknown | optional |
| number | number | Number of the enactment. Required for statutory instruments. | Unknown | suggested |