The Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

Made: 19th February 2025

Coming into operation: 31st March 2025

The Executive Office [^f00001] makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 50 and 51 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998[^f00002] and now vested in it[^f00003].

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on 31st March 2025.

Amendment of the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

2

For the Schedule to the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004[^f00004] substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Revocation

3

The Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023[^f00005] is revoked.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Executive Office on 19th of February 2025.

Richard Irwin — A senior officer of the Executive Office

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 (“the 2004 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”).

The Schedule to the 2004 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 2004 Order.

The following bodies have been added to Part I of the Schedule:

Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse

Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board

The Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery

Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation

The following amendments have been made to Part I of the Schedule:

Northern Ireland Guardian Ad Litem Agency

has been amended to:

Children’s Court Guardian Agency for Northern Ireland

The following deletions have been made to Part I of the Schedule:

Dalriada Water Ltd

NI Water Clear Ltd

The following deletions have been made to Part II of the Schedule:

The Lord Chancellor

Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation

Article 3 revokes the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister; see section 1(1) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c.5 (N.I.).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1998/3162 (N.I.21)

[^f00003]: S.R. 1999 No. 481; Article 4(a) and Schedule 2, Part I

[^f00004]: S.R. 2004 No. 494; to which the most recent amending Order is SR 2023 No. 197

[^f00005]: S.R. 2023 No.197

Editorial notes

[^key-1798c527798d2ab841b5654a7ddd2cc3]: Art. 1 in operation at 31.3.2025, see art. 1

[^key-1787f0bfe449f99b26d243f2a010bfe6]: Art. 2 in operation at 31.3.2025, see art. 1

[^key-6e472ed36939a7a246a03e64c7ed1039]: Art. 3 in operation at 31.3.2025, see art. 1