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Commission for Victims and Survivors Act (Northern Ireland) 2008

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The Commission for Victims and Survivors for Northern Ireland

1.—(1) The Victims and Survivors (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (NI 17) is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (4).

(2) For Article 4(1) to (3) of that Order substitute—

4.(1) There shall be a body corporate to be known as the Commission for Victims and Survivors for Northern Ireland.

(2) The Schedule has effect in relation to the Commission..

(3) For the Schedule to that Order substitute the Schedule set out in Schedule 1.

(4) In the other provisions of that Order—

(a)for “Commissioner” and “Commissioner's” (wherever occurring) substitute “Commission” and “Commission's”, respectively;

(b)for “his” or “he” (wherever occurring) substitute “its” and “it” respectively.

(5) The statutory provisions mentioned in the first column of Schedule 2 are repealed to the extent set out in the second column.

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2.  This Act may be cited as the Commission for Victims and Survivors Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

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