InterpretationN.I.
2. In these Rules—
“Charity” has the same meaning as in the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 M1.
“Court files” means records created by, or originating from, any court in Northern Ireland, including records relating to inquests.
“Incident” means an event or series of events which caused serious physical or psychological harm to a person.
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and “Department” shall be construed accordingly.
“Office” means the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
“Partner” includes “Director”.
“Relevant authority” means:
In the case of a court file which has been transferred to the Office from a government department in the charge of a Minister of the Crown, the Minister of the Crown who appears to the Minister to be primarily concerned;
In the case of a court file which has been transferred to the Office from a Northern Ireland Department, the Northern Ireland Minister who appears to the Minister to be primarily concerned; or
In the case of a record transferred to the Office by any other person, the person who appears to the Minister to be primarily concerned.
“Solicitor” has the same meaning as in article 3 of the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976.
[F1“the UK GDPR” has the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(10) and (14) of that Act);]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in rule 2 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 103 (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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