Section 25 Power to specify public authorities by order.

Northern Ireland

(1)

In this Part of this Act “public authority” means a person specified in an order made by the Department.

(2)

The order may provide for a person to be a public authority for all or any of the purposes of this Part of this Act.

(3)

The Department shall not exercise the power conferred by this section so that a person becomes a public authority for any of the purposes of this Part of this Act unless the person is—

(a)

a Minister of the Crown or the head of a Northern Ireland department,

(b)

a body created by a statutory provision within the meaning of the M1Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 or the holder of any office so created, or

(c)

a person appearing to the Department to exercise functions of a public nature.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.).

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.3.1999) by S.I. 1998/3162 (N.I. 21), art. 105(4), Sch. 5 (subject to savings in art. 105(2), Sch. 4 para. 6); S.R. 1999/81, art. 3(1)