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2003 No. 521

FAIR EMPLOYMENT

Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003

  Made 9th December 2003 
  Coming into operation 1st January 2004 

Whereas, in accordance with Article 50(3) of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998[1] ("the 1998 Order"), each person who, by virtue of the following Order, becomes a public authority for any of the purposes of Articles 52 to 65 of the 1998 Order is:

    (1) A Minister of the Crown or a Northern Ireland Minister;

    (2) A statutory body or the holder of a statutory office; or

    (3) A person appearing to the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister[2] ("the Department") to exercise functions of a public nature;

     And whereas, in accordance with Article 51(4) of the 1998 Order, it appears to the Department that some or all of the people who are employed by each person, who by virtue of the following Order becomes an employer for the purposes of Articles 52 to 61 of the 1998 Order, who are in the service of the Crown for the purposes of the functions of those persons or who are treated by virtue of the following Order as so employed or as in such service, are employed or serve in Northern Ireland:

     Now, therefore, the Department in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 50(1) and (2) and Article 51(2) of the 1998 Order and now vested in it[3] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2004.

Amendment of the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000
     2. The Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000[4] shall be amended in accordance with Articles 3 to 5.

     3. In paragraph (2) of Article 1, for the definition of "police force" there shall be substituted -

     4. In paragraph (d) of Article 2 -

     5. For the Schedule there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Order.

Revocation
     6. The following Orders are hereby revoked -



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister on


9th December 2003.

L.S.


P. McAuley
A Senior Officer of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister


SCHEDULE
Article 5




EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)


This Order amends the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 ("the 2000 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") and provides for the persons who are to be treated for such purposes as the employees of some of those authorities.

The Schedule to the 2000 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.

Articles 3 and 4 of this Order repeat amendments included in the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 which, by virtue of Article 6, is now revoked as is the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002.

Article 5 of this Order substitutes a new Schedule to the 2000 Order.

The following bodies are added:

The following bodies are deleted:

Notes:

 [1] S.I. 1998/3162 (N.I. 21)back

[2] See S.R. 1999 No. 481; Article 4(a) and Part I Schedule 2back

[3] S.R. 1999 No. 481 Schedule 2, Part Iback

[4] S.R. 2000 No. 371 as amended by S.R. 2001 No. 421 and S.R. 2002 No. 367back

[5] 2000 c. 32back

[6] S.R. 2001 No. 421back

[7] S.R. 2002 No. 367back


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