{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-57",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1976/1042",
  "legislation_title": "Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/57",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Power to conduct formal investigations",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to its general power to do anything requisite for the performance of its duties under Article 54(1), the Commission may if it thinks fit, and shall if required by the Department of Manpower Services, conduct a formal investigation for any purpose connected with the carrying out of those duties.\n(2) The Commission may, with the approval of the Department for Communities , appoint, on a full-time or part-time basis, one or more individuals as additional Commissioners for the purposes of a formal investigation.\n(3) The Commission may nominate one or more Commissioners, with or without one or more additional Commissioners, to conduct a formal investigation on its behalf, and may delegate any of its functions in relation to the investigation to the persons so nominated.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 57(2) substituted (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 2 (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 57(2): transfer of functions (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), arts. 1(2), 3(2)(a) (with art. 9(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1042/article/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:48.935623+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."
}