Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

Statutory Rule 2001 No. 421

Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

2001 No. 421
FAIR EMPLOYMENT
Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

	Made	3rd December 2001
	Coming into operation	1st January 2002

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, commencement and interpretation
     1. This Order may be cited as the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2002.

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 -

" "police" has the same meaning as in the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000[

4. In paragraph (d) of Article 2 -

(a) for "Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary" there shall be substituted "Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland"; and

(b) the word "force" shall be deleted.

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

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

3rd December 2001.

L.S.

D. Trimble
First Minister

M. Durkan
Deputy First Minister

Public Authorities for the purposes of Articles 62 to 65 of the 1998 Order
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Secretary of State for Defence

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Secretary of State for the Home Department

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Secretary of State for Social Security

Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Commissioners of Customs and Excise

Board of Inland Revenue

The Lord Chancellor

The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland

The Comptroller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office

The Director-General for Electricity Supply for Northern Ireland

The Director-General of Gas for Northern Ireland

The Director of Savings (Department for National Savings)

Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland

Any Northern Ireland Department

Any Northern Ireland Minister

The governing body of an Institution of Further Education within the meaning of the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997

Any Health and Social Services trust established under Article 10(1) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991."

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 amend the 2000 Order to reflect changes brought about by the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000.

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

The following bodies are added:

Part I	The Northern Ireland Policing Board Consignia plc
Part II	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The following bodies are deleted:

Part I	Police Authority for Northern Ireland Post Office
Part II	Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Notes:

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

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

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

[4] S.R. 2000 No. 371 back

[5] 2000 c. 32 back

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