The Disability Discrimination (Abolition of District Advisory Committees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1998 No. 230

DISABLED PERSONS

The Disability Discrimination (Abolition of District Advisory Committees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

25th June 1998

Coming into operation

30th July 1998

The Department of Economic Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 60(6) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Disability Discrimination (Abolition of District Advisory Committees) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 30th July 1998.

(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(2) shall apply to this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Repeal of section 17 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1945

2.  Section 17 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1945(3) (district advisory committees) are hereby repealed.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on

L.S.

D. S. S. McAuley

Assistant Secretary

25th June 1998.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order repeals section 17 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 (“the 1945 Act”), as amended by Article 17 of, and the Schedule to, the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/839 (N.I. 20)).

In their amended form, section 17 of, and Schedule 2 to, the 1945 Act make provision for the establishment and procedure of district advisory committees (lately known as “Committees for the Employment of Disabled People”).

(1)

1995 c. 50; section 60(6) is modified, in its application to Northern Ireland, by section 70(6) and paragraph 40(3) of Schedule 8

(2)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)

(3)

1945 c. 6 (N.I.); section 17 and Schedule 2 were amended by Article 17 of, and the Schedule to, the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, S.I. 1981/839 (N.I. 20); section 17 was also amended by section 60(7) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (1995 c. 50) as modified, in its application to Northern Ireland, by section 70(6) of, and paragraph 40(4) of Schedule 8 to, that Act