Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1999 No. 451

FAIR EMPLOYMENT

Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Made

15th November 1999

Coming into operation

1st January 2000

Whereas, in accordance with Article 50(3) of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(1) (“the 1998 Order”), each person who, by virtue of the following Order, becomes a public authority for any of the purposes of Articles 52 to 65 of the 1998 Order is:

(1) a Minister of the Crown or the head of a Northern Ireland Department(2);

(2) a statutory body or the holder of a statutory office; or

(3) a person appearing to the Department of Economic Development (“the Department”) to exercise functions of a public nature;

And whereas, in accordance with Article 51(4) of the 1998 Order, it appears to the Department that some or all of the people who are employed by each person, who by virtue of the following Order becomes an employer for the purposes of Articles 52 to 61 of the 1998 Order, who are in the service of the Crown for the purposes of the functions of those persons or who are treated by virtue of the following Order as so employed or as in such service, are employed or serve in Northern Ireland;

Now, therefore, the Department in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 50(1) and (2) of the 1998 Order and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

(1)

S.I. 1998/3162 (N.I. 21)

(2)

See S.I. 1998/3162 (N.I. 21) paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 4