Statutory Rule 1996 No. 504

Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

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1996 No. 504

FAIR EMPLOYMENT

Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Whereas, in accordance with section 25(3) of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989^[1] ("the Act of 1989"), each person who, by virtue of the following Order, becomes a public authority for any of the purposes of sections 27 to 42 of that Act is:
    (1)  a Minister of the Crown or the head of a Northern Ireland Department;

    (2)  a body created by a statutory provision, within the meaning of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954^[2], or the holder of any office so created; or

    (3)  a person appearing to the Department of Economic Development ("the Department")^[3] to exercise functions of a public nature;

And whereas, in accordance with section 26(4) of the Act of 1989, 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 sections 27 to 37 of that Act, 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 on it by section 25(1) and (2) of the Act of 1989 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) 1996 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1997.

Interpretation
    2.    The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendment of the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 1989
    3.    For the Schedule to the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 1989^[4] there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Order.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on
21st October 1996.

L.S.
W. D. A. Haire

Assistant Secretary

[1] 1989 c. 32 back

[2] 1954 c. 33 (N.I.) back

[3] See section 47(5) of the Act of 1989 as read with section 57(1) of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 (c. 25); the Department of Manpower Services was renamed the Department of Economic Development by S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11) Article 3 back

[4] S.R. 1989 No. 475 as amended by S.R. 1990 No. 453; S.R. 1993 No. 4; S.R. 1993 No. 459; S.R. 1995 No. 10 and S.R. 1995 No. 430 back

Explanatory Note