Ministers and Assembly Members
7Pledge of office by Ministers
In the pledge of office set out in Schedule 4 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998, after paragraph (cd) insert—
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to support the rule of law unequivocally in word and deed and to support all efforts to uphold it;
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to work collectively with the other members of the Executive Committee to achieve a society free of paramilitarism;
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to challenge all paramilitary activity and associated criminality;
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to call for, and to work together with the other members of the Executive Committee to achieve, the disbandment of all paramilitary organisations and their structures;
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to challenge paramilitary attempts to control communities;
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to support those who are determined to make the transition away from paramilitarism;
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to accept no authority, direction or control on my political activities other than my democratic mandate alongside my own personal and party judgment;