The Industrial Training(Northern Ireland) Order 1990

Functions of Authority in the interim period

2.—(1) In the interim period the Authority shall, subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, make arrangements for the winding up of its affairs.

(2) Arrangements made by the Authority under this paragraph may include—

(a) arrangements for continuing, for such period as the Department may approve, the provision by the Authority to an industrial training board of any secretarial or administrative services which, immediately before the appointed day, were provided to that board by the Authority under Article 8 of the 1984 Order;

(b) arrangements for facilitating the provision of such services by another person or body (including an industrial training board) in place of the Authority.

(3) The Authority may make charges for any secretarial or administrative services provided by it in pursuance of arrangements made under this paragraph.

(4) The Department may, after consultation with the Authority, give the Authority directions of a general or specific character in relation to, or connected with, the winding up of the Authority’s affairs and it shall be the duty of the Authority to give effect to any such directions.

(5) It shall be the duty of the Authority before the date of dissolution to comply with Article 12 of the 1984 Order (reports and accounts); but, in relation to any time after 31st March 1990, that Article shall have effect as if for references to a financial year there were substituted references to the period beginning on that date and ending on the appointed day.

(6) The Department may make available to the Authority during the interim period any assets or staff transferred to the Department under Article 3(2) or (3).

(7) The Department may, with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, make grants to the Authority during the interim period.