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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-specification-of-public-authorities-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2025/34",
  "legislation_title": "The Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-specification-of-public-authorities-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "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”).\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 bodies have been added to Part I of the Schedule:\nCommissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse\nHistorical Institutional Abuse Redress Board\nThe Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery\nNorthern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation\nThe following amendments have been made to Part I of the Schedule:\nNorthern Ireland Guardian Ad Litem Agency\nhas been amended to:\nChildren’s Court Guardian Agency for Northern Ireland\nThe following deletions have been made to Part I of the Schedule:\nDalriada Water Ltd\nNI Water Clear Ltd\nThe following deletions have been made to Part II of the Schedule:\nThe Lord Chancellor\nNorthern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation\nArticle 3 revokes the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2023.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/34/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:42.447554+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."
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