2002 No. 367
Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002
Made
Coming into operation
Whereas, in accordance with Article 50(3) of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 19981 (“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:
a Minister of the Crown or a Northern Ireland Minister;
a statutory body or the holder of a statutory office; or
a person appearing to the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister2 (“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 it3 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order: