Explanatory note

This Order appoints 3rd March 1998 as the date on which the set of rules (“the procedural rules”) issued by the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland (“the Commission”) under section 4 of the Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”) will come into operation.

The procedural rules regulate and prescribe the practice and procedure to be followed by the Commission in exercising the functions mentioned in section 2(2) of the 1998 Act (power to mediate between parties to particular disputes concerning proposed public processions and to issue determinations in respect of particular proposed public processions) and by other persons or bodies in their dealings with the Commission in connection with the exercise of those functions.

The procedural rules are published by the Commission and copies may be obtained from the Commission at 12th Floor, Windsor House, 6-12 Bedford Street, Belfast BT2 7EL.