Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Building Societies Commission

The operation of building societies.

Certification Officer for Northern Ireland

Fraud, and other irregularities, relating to the financial affairs of trade unions and employers' associations.

Chief Executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission

Actual or potential miscarriages of justice.

Civil Aviation Authority

Compliance with the requirements of civil aviation legislation, including aviation safety.

Commissioners of Customs and Excise

Value added tax, insurance premium tax, excise duties and landfill tax. The import and export of prohibited or restricted goods.

Commissioners of the Inland Revenue

Income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, petroleum revenue tax, inheritance tax, stamp duties, national insurance contributions, statutory maternity pay and statutory sick pay.

Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland

The proper conduct of public business, value for money, fraud and corruption in relation to the provision of centrally funded public services.

Data Protection Registrar

Compliance with the requirements of legislation relating to data protection.

Department of Agriculture

Acts or omissions which have an actual or potential effect on the flows in rivers or on drainage of land.

Acts or omissions which have an adverse or potentially adverse effect on fish in the sea, inland fisheries, or on migratory salmon or trout.

Department of Economic Development

Fraud and other misconduct in relation to companies. Compliance with the requirements of consumer protection and fair trading legislation.

Department of the Environment

Acts or omissions which have an actual or potential effect on the environment or the management or regulation of the environment including those relating to pollution.

Department of Health and Social Services and auditors appointed by that Department

The proper conduct of public business, value for money, fraud and corruption in health service bodies.

Director General of Electricity Supply for Northern Ireland

The generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity and activities ancillary to these matters.

Director General of Fair Trading

Matters concerning the sale of goods or the supply of services which adversely affect the interests of consumers. Matters relating to consumer credit and hire, estate agency, unfair terms in consumer contracts and misleading advertising. The abuse of a dominant position in a market and the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition.

Director General of Gas for Northern Ireland

The conveyance, storage and supply of gas, and activities ancillary to these matters.

Director General of Telecommunications

The provision and use of telecommunication systems, services and apparatus.

Director of the Serious Fraud Office

Serious or complex fraud.

District Councils

Matters which may affect the health or safety of any individual at work; matters, which may affect the health or safety of any member of the public, arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work.

Compliance with the requirements of consumer safety legislation.

Financial Services Authority

The carrying on of investment business or of insurance business; the operation of banks, deposit-taking businesses and wholesale money market regimes; the functioning of financial markets, investment exchanges and clearing houses; the functioning of other financial regulators; money laundering, financial crime, and other serious financial misconduct, in connection with activities regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland

Acts or omissions which have an adverse or potentially adverse effect on inland fisheries or on migratory salmon or trout.

Foyle Fisheries Commission

Acts or omissions which have an adverse or potentially adverse effect on inland fisheries or on migratory salmon or trout.

Friendly Societies Commission

The operation of friendly societies and industrial assurance companies.

Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland

Matters which may affect the health or safety of any individual at work; matters, which may affect the health or safety of any member of the public, arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work.

Investment Management Regulatory Organisation

The activities of persons regulated by the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation.

Local government auditors appointed by the Department of the Environment

The proper conduct of public business, value for money, fraud and corruption in district councils, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, the Fire Authority for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee and the Local Government Staff Commission for Northern Ireland.

Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority

Matters relating to occupational pension schemes and other private pension arrangements.

Personal Investment Authority

The activities of persons regulated by the Personal Investment Authority.

Registrar of Credit Unions for Northern Ireland

The operation of credit unions and industrial and provident societies.

Securities and Futures Authority

The activities of persons regulated by the Securities and Futures Authority.

The competent authority under Part IV of the Financial Services Act 19862

The list ing of securities on a stock exchange; prospectuses on offers of transferable securities to the public.

Treasury

The carrying on of insurance business.

A person (“person A”) carrying out functions, by virtue of legislation, relating to relevant failures falling within one or more matters within a description of matters in respect of which another person (“person B”) is prescribed by this Order, where person B was previously responsible for carrying out the same or substantially similar functions and has ceased to be so responsible

Matters falling within the description of matters in respect of which person B is prescribed by this Order to the extent that those matters relate to functions currently carried out by person A.