Section 15 Interpretation

In this Act—

• “special adviser” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Civil Service (Special Advisers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2013;

• “Minister” means—

  1. (a)

     the First Minister or deputy First Minister,

  2. (b)

     a Northern Ireland Minister,

  3. (c)

     a junior Minister,

  and the words in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) have the same meaning as in the Northern Ireland Act 1998.