Commentary on provisions of Act Section 9: Power of Department of Justice to make further consequential provision
Section 9 allows for amendment or modification of any provision of primary or secondary legislation that is transferred Northen Ireland provision. As with Section 8, this may be required to ensure that the consequences of the quashing of a conviction can be applied to these convictions quashed by Act of Parliament in the same way as they do to convictions quashed by a court on appeal.
	Subsection 9(1) confers a power on the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland to make consequential provision for the purposes of the Act. Subsection 9(2) defines "transferred Northern Ireland provision" for the purposes of the Section.
	Subsection 9(3) details how this power may be exercised by amending or otherwise modifying any provision made under an Act of Parliament passed before or in the same session as this Act.
	Subsections 9(5) to 9(7) provide for the ways in which regulations are to be made. Subsection 9(6) defines primary legislation for the purposes of this section.