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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-specification-of-public-authorities-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/504",
  "legislation_title": "Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-specification-of-public-authorities-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2006",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis 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”) and provides for the persons who are to be treated for such purposes as the employees of some of those authorities.\nThe 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.\nArticle 2 of this Order substitutes a new Schedule to the 2004 Order.\nThe following amendments have been made to the Schedule:\nPart I\nThe Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute replaces the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland\nThe Big Lottery Fund replaces the National Lotteries Charities Board and the New Opportunities Fund\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board replaces the Fire Authority for Northern Ireland\nPart II\nThe Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Commission has been added.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/504/note",
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  "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."
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