The Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2008 No. 480

Fair Employment

The Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008

Made

2nd December 2008

Coming into operation

1st January 2009

The Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister(1) makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 50 and 51 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(2) and now vested in it(3).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2009.

(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004(4).

Amendment of the principal Order

2.—(1) In Part I of the Schedule to the principal Order, after the reference to “Coleraine Harbour Commissioners” insert “The Commission for Victims and Survivors for Northern Ireland”(5).

(2) In Part II of the Schedule to the principal Order delete “The Meat and Livestock Commission”(6).

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister on 2nd December 2008.

Gerard Mulligan

A senior officer of the

Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 (“the 2004 Order”) which specifies a number of persons or bodies as public authorities for certain purposes under Part VII of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (“the 1998 Order”).

The Schedule to the 2004 Order lists in Part I the bodies who are public authorities for the purposes of Articles 52 to 65 of the 1998 Order and in Part II the bodies who are public authorities for the purposes of Articles 62 to 65 of the 1998 Order.

Article 2 of this Order adds the Commission for Victims and Survivors for Northern Ireland to Part I of the Schedule to the 2004 Order and deletes the Meat and Livestock Commission from Part II of the Schedule to the 2004 Order.

(1)

S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1); Article 3(1)(a)

(2)

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

(3)

S.R. 1999 No. 481; Article 4(a) and Schedule 2, Part I

(4)

S.R. 2004 No. 494; relevant amending Order is S.R. 2007 No. 507

(5)

Established under Article 4 of the Victims and Survivors (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2953 (N.I. 17)), as amended by section 1 of the Commission for Victims and Survivors Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 6 (N.I.))

(6)

Dissolved by Article 17 of S.I. 2008/576