Article 2 Interpretation

In these Rules—

• “Charity” has the same meaning as in the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 M1.

• “Court files” means records created by, or originating from, any court in Northern Ireland, including records relating to inquests.

• “Incident” means an event or series of events which caused serious physical or psychological harm to a person.

• “Minister” means the Minister responsible for the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and “Department” shall be construed accordingly.

• “Office” means the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

• “Partner” includes “Director”.

• “Relevant authority” means:

  1. (a)

     In the case of a court file which has been transferred to the Office from a government department in the charge of a Minister of the Crown, the Minister of the Crown who appears to the Minister to be primarily concerned;

  2. (b)

     In the case of a court file which has been transferred to the Office from a Northern Ireland Department, the Northern Ireland Minister who appears to the Minister to be primarily concerned; or

  3. (c)

     In the case of a record transferred to the Office by any other person, the person who appears to the Minister to be primarily concerned.

• “Solicitor” has the same meaning as in article 3 of the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976.

• F1“the UK GDPR” has the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(10) and (14) of that Act);