{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1989-repealed-131999/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1989-repealed-131999/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/32",
  "legislation_title": "Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 (repealed 1.3.1999)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1989-repealed-131999",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Power to specify public authorities by order.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Act “public authority” means a person specified in an order made by the Department.\n(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.\n(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—\n(a) a Minister of the Crown or the head of a Northern Ireland department,\n(b) a body created by a statutory provision within the meaning of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 or the holder of any office so created, or\n(c) a person appearing to the Department to exercise functions of a public nature.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/32/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:33.371151+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}