It restored self-government to Northern Ireland on the basis of ' power sharing' and it included acceptance of the principle of consent, commitment to civil and political rights, cultural parity of esteem, police reform, paramilitary disarmament and early release of paramilitary prisoners, followed by demilitarisation. Issues relating to sovereignty, governance, discrimination, military and paramilitary groups, justice and policing were central to the agreement. Northern Ireland's present devolved system of government is based on the agreement. It is made up of the Multi-Party Agreement between most of Northern Ireland's political parties, and the British–Irish Agreement between the British and Irish governments. It was a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s.
The Good Friday Agreement ( GFA), or Belfast Agreement ( Irish: Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste Ulster-Scots: Guid Friday Greeance or Bilfawst Greeance), is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that had prevailed since the late 1960s.
Voting System and Constituencies Actĭissolution and Calling of Parliament Act Eire (Confirmation of Agreement) Act 1929
