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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 367

FAIR EMPLOYMENT

Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

29th November 2002

Coming into operation

1st January 2003

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) 2002 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2003.

Amendment of the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

2.  For the Schedule to the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000(4) 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 29th November 2002.

L.S.

Patricia McAuley

Assistant Secretary

Article 2

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE

PART Ipublic authorities for the purposes of articles 52 to 65 of the 1998 order

PART IIpublic authorities for the purposes of articles 62 to 65 of the 1998 order

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.

Article 2 of this Order substitutes a new Schedule to the 2000 Order.

The following bodies are added:

Part I

Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery

Northern Ireland Social Care Council

Invest Northern Ireland

Royal Mail Group plc

Part IISecretary of State for Work and Pensions.

The following bodies are deleted having merged with, or been succeeded by, other bodies listed in the Order:

Part I

Consignia plc

Northern Ireland Hotel and Catering College

Local Enterprise Development Unit

National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

Part II

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Secretary of State for Social Security.

(2)

See S.R.1999 No. 481; Article 4(a) and Part 1 Schedule 2

(3)

S.R.1999 No. 481. Schedule 2, Part 1