Stormont Government (other)
Stormont government can refer to: * Government of Northern Ireland (1921–1972) * Northern Ireland Executive The Northern Ireland Executive is the devolved government of Northern Ireland, an administrative branch of the legislature – the Northern Ireland Assembly. It is answerable to the assembly and was initially established according to the ter ...

Government Of Northern Ireland (1921–1972)
The Executive Committee or the Executive Committee for Northern Ireland was the government of Northern Ireland created under the ''Government of Ireland Act 1920''. Generally known as either the ''Cabinet'' or the ''Government'', the executive committee existed from 1922 to 1972. It exercised executive authority formally vested in the British monarch in relation to devolved matters. Under the Act as originally enacted, the "Executive Committee for Northern Ireland" was an executive committee of the Privy Council of Ireland consisting of the ministers appointed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to head departments of state. Ministers so chosen did not have to be members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland but were required to become members within six months. The '' Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act'', which came into force in December 1922, replaced the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council of Ireland with the Governor of Northern Ireland and Privy Council of North ...
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