{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-specification-of-public-authorities-order-northern-ireland-2004/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-specification-of-public-authorities-order-northern-ireland-2004/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/494",
  "legislation_title": "Fair Employment (Specification of Public Authorities) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-specification-of-public-authorities-order-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specification of public authorities",
  "text": "For the purposes of Articles 52 to 61 of the 1998 Order: –\n(a) the Minister for the Department of Finance and Personnel shall be a public authority and all Northern Ireland civil servants shall be treated as employees of that authority;\n(b) the Minister for the Civil Service shall be a public authority and all United Kingdom civil servants shall be treated as employees of that authority;\n(c) the Secretary of State for Defence shall be a public authority and all reservists and members of the home service forces shall be treated as employees of that authority; and\n(d) the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland shall be a public authority and all members of the police shall be treated as employees of that authority.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 1.1.2005, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/494/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:55:11.609658+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."
}