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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-specification-of-public-authorities-order-northern-ireland-2000/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/199",
  "legislation_title": "Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-specification-of-public-authorities-order-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2000.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1998 Order” means the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998;\n“member of the home service forces” means any member of the armed forces whose service (or service otherwise than for the purposes of training) is restricted to Northern Ireland and who is in such service there for not less than sixteen hours weekly;\n“Northern Ireland civil servant” means any person appointed to a situation in the Northern Ireland Civil Service, other than a person whose service in such a situation normally involves less than sixteen hours weekly;\n“police force” has the same meaning as in the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998;\n“reserve force” means a reserve force within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996;\n“reservist” means a member of any reserve force who serves wholly or mainly in Northern Ireland, other than a person whose service normally involves less than sixteen hours weekly; and\n“United Kingdom civil servant” means any person serving wholly or mainly in Northern Ireland in the civil service of the Crown other than—\n(a) a person whose service normally involves less than sixteen hours weekly; or\n(b) a Northern Ireland civil servant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3162 (N.I. 21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 32"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1996 c. 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/199/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:15.382859+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."
}