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AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Audit and Accountability (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (Statutory Right of Access: Exclusions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 30th April 2003. Interpretation 2 In this Order – “the Comptroller and Auditor General ” means the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland; “the Principal Order ” means the Audit and Accountability (N.I.) Order 2003. Disapplication of Comptroller and Auditor General’s statutory right of access 3 The provisions of Articles 3(3)(c) and 3(4)(c) of the Principal Order (Comptroller and Auditor General’s right of access to relevant documents held by third parties in the course of a statutory audit or value for money study of a public body of which he is auditor) do not apply in relation to any payment made to an individual under the following provisions – a Article 4(2) of the Arts Council (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 , where the payment is for the maintenance or personal support of an individual to whom payment is made; b Section 8 of the Carers and Direct Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 ; c The following provisions of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 , that is to say i Articles 50(3) and 51 insofar as they relate to payments made to and for the benefit of individuals; and ii Article 60(1) insofar as it relates to payments for the benefit of a pupil and made to the pupil or anyone with parental responsibility for him. d The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 ; e The Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 insofar as they provide for payments to individuals; f The Education (Student Loans) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 ; g The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 insofar as they provide for payments to individuals; h Article 44(2)(a) and (b) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 ; i Articles 3(c), 11(1)(c) and 11(1)(d) of the Recreation and Youth Service (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 , where the payment is for the maintenance or personal support of the individual to whom payment is made; j The Welfare Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 ; and k Article 7(1)(b) of the Youth Service (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 24th April 2003. Leo O'Reilly Senior Officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel
DANGEROUS DRUGS Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2003. Interpretation 2 The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Amendment of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 3 1 The Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4). 2 After regulation 6 there shall be inserted – “Supply of articles for administering or preparing controlled drugs 6A 1 Notwithstanding the provisions of section 9A(1) and (3) of the Act, any of the persons specified in paragraph (2) may, when acting in their capacity as such, supply or offer to supply the following articles – a a swab; b utensils for the preparation of a controlled drug; c citric acid; d a filter; e ampoules of water for injection, only when supplied or offered for supply in accordance with the Medicines Act 1968 . 2 The persons referred to in paragraph (1) are: a a practitioner; b a pharmacist; c a person employed or engaged in the lawful provision of drug treatment services. 3 In regulation 2(2) for “has the same meaning as in Part I of the Civil Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) Order 1971 ” there shall be substituted “means anything in which information of any description is recorded (within the meaning of the Civil Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 ”. 4 In regulation 6(7)(c) for “the Post Office” there shall be substituted “a postal operator (within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 2000 )”. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 7th July 2003. D. C. Gowdy Permanent Secretary, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Citation, interpretation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendments to the principal Order 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
DISEASES OF FISH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Infected area 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provisions for the prevention, eradication and control of disease 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
DISEASES OF FISH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Infected Waters (Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis) Revocation Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 18th April 2003. Revocation 2 The Infected Waters (Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 is hereby revoked. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 17th April 2003. N. B. Cornick A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
RACE RELATIONS Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Race Relations Order (Seamen Recruited Abroad) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 19th July 2003. Amendment of Article 11 of the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 2 1 Article 11 of the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 is amended as follows. 2 In paragraph (1), at the end there is added – to the extent that the act – relates to the pay the person receives in respect of his employment, and amounts to discrimination against the person on the basis of his nationality. . 3 In paragraph (2), at the end there is added – to the extent that the act – relates to the pay the person receives in respect of the work, and amounts to discrimination against the person on the basis of his nationality. . 4 After paragraph (4) there is added – 5 In this Article – “pay” includes retirement or death benefit; “retirement or death benefit” means a pension, annuity, lump sum, gratuity or other similar benefit which will be paid or given to the employee or contract worker or a member of his family or household in the event of his retirement or death. . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister on 25th June 2003. P. McAuley A Senior Officer of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister
ROADS Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Street Works Register (Registration Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2003. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations – “prescribed information” means the information required to be given by an undertaker to the Department pursuant to regulation 3 of the 2002 Regulations for registration on the register; and “the register” means the street works register required to be kept by the Department by virtue of Article 13(1) of the Street Works (Northern Ireland) Order 1995; and “the 2002 Regulations” means the Street Works (Register, Notices, Directions and Designations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 . Registration Fee 3 1 Subject to paragraph (2), upon the registration of prescribed information by an undertaker, in accordance with regulation 3 of the 2002 Regulations, that undertaker shall pay to the Department the appropriate fee prescribed in the Schedule. 2 No fee shall be payable where registration of an item of prescribed information is effected in consequence of its transmission electronically to a computer system maintained by or on behalf of the Department for the purposes of the Northern Ireland Street Works Register and Notification System. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on 14th April 2003. J. Carlisle A senior officer of the Department for Regional Development
PLANT HEALTH Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Plant Health (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003, and shall come into operation on 10th May 2003. Amendment of the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993 2 Schedule 13 to the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993 shall be amended by deleting from paragraph (e) in the definition of District No. 1 (County Down-Armagh) the following townlands: Ballaghanery, Ballaghanery Upper, Ballinran, Ballinran Upper, Ballykeel, Ballymartin, Ballyveagh Beg, Ballyveagh Beg Upper, Ballyveagh More, Ballyveagh More Upper, Brackenagh East, Brackenagh East Upper, Brackenagh West, Brackenagh West Upper, Carrigenagh Upper, Glasdrumman, Maghereagh, Moneydorragh Beg, Moneydorragh More, Moneydorragh More Upper, Mullartown. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 14th April 2003. David Small Senior Officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
HEALTH AND SAFETY Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 11th July 2003. Amendment of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 2 In the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 – a in regulation 2(1), after the definition of “mine” there shall be added the following definition – “mutagen” means a substance or preparation which if classified in accordance with the classification provided for by regulation 4 of the CHIP Regulations would be in the category of danger, mutagenic (category 1) or mutagenic (category 2) whether or not the substance or preparation would be required to be classified under those Regulations; ; b in regulation 7(5) – i after the word “carcinogen” there shall be added the words “or mutagen”; and ii in each place where it occurs, after the word “carcinogens” there shall be added the words “or mutagens”. c in regulation 13(4), for the words “a carcinogen or a biological agent” there shall be substituted the words “a carcinogen, a mutagen or a biological agent”; and d at the end of Schedule 1 there shall be added the following substances – The following polychlorodibenzodioxins: 2, 3, 7, 8-TCDD 1, 2, 3, 7, 8-PeCDD 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8-HxCDD 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8-HxCDD 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9-HxCDD 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8-HpCDD OCDD. The following polychlorodibenzofurans: 2, 3, 7, 8-TCDF 2, 3, 4, 7, 8-PeCDF 1, 2, 3, 7, 8-PeCDF 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8-HxCDF 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9-HxCDF 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8-HxCDF 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8-HxCDF 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8-HpCDF 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9-HpCDF OCDF where T = tetra, Pe = penta, Hx = hexa, Hp = hepta and O = octa. . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 3rd June 2003. Michael J. Bohill A senior officer of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Her Majesty’s Forces) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 5th May 2003. Amendment of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations 2 In the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 after regulation 6B (effect of statutory adoption pay on incapacity benefit) there shall be inserted the following regulation – Inclusion of days of sickness absence from duty before discharge from Her Majesty’s forces in calculating days of entitlement to incapacity benefit 6C 1 For the purpose of section 30D(3A) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (days prescribed in respect of person discharged from Her Majesty’s forces after 3rd May 2003) in calculating the number of days for which a person has been entitled to short-term incapacity benefit there shall be included any day which falls within a period – a of 4 or more consecutive days each of which is a day when, according to records kept from time to time by the Secretary of State for Defence, the person was on sickness absence from duty; and b which ends not more than 8 weeks before the first day of the period to which the claim for incapacity benefit relates. 2 For the purpose of paragraph (1)(a) any two such periods not separated by a period of more than 8 weeks shall be treated as one period. . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 11th April 2003. Henry Johnston Senior Officer of the Department for Social Development
HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Carers (Services) and Direct Payments Regulations 2003 and shall come into operation on 5th May 2003. 2 In these Regulations – “ the Act ” means the Carers and Direct Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 2002. Services of an intimate nature and prescribed circumstances 2 1 For the purposes of section 2(3) of the Act a service delivered to the person cared for is of an intimate nature if it involves – a lifting, washing, grooming, feeding, dressing, bathing, toileting, administering medicines or otherwise having physical contact with the person cared for; b assistance in connection with washing, grooming, feeding, dressing, bathing, administering medicines or using the toilet; or c supervising him whilst he is dressing, bathing or using the toilet 2 Where a service is being delivered to the person cared for and – a during the delivery of that service the person cared for asks the person delivering the service to provide a service of an intimate nature; or b the person cared for is in a situation in which he is likely to suffer serious personal harm unless a service of an intimate nature is provided to him and i the person cared for is unable to consent to the provision of that service, or ii the person providing the service reasonably believes it is necessary to provide that service because the likelihood of serious personal harm to the person cared for is imminent; a service of an intimate nature may be provided. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 7th April 2003. Leslie Frew Senior Officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
EMPLOYMENT Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (Application of Parts XIIZA and XIIZB to Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 8th April 2003. 2 In these Regulations – “ the Act ” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992; “adoption from overseas” means the adoption of a child who enters Northern Ireland from outside the United Kingdom in connection with or for the purposes of adoption which does not involve the placement of the child for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom. Application of Part XIIZA of the Act to adoptions from overseas 2 Part XIIZA of the Act shall apply in relation to adoptions from overseas, with the modifications of sections 167ZB, 167ZE and 167ZJ of the Act specified in the second column of Schedule 1. Application of Part XIIZB of the Act to adoptions from overseas 3 Part XIIZB of the Act shall apply in relation to adoptions from overseas, with the modifications of sections 167ZL and 167ZS of the Act specified in the second column of Schedule 2. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 7th April 2003. R. B. Gamble A senior officer of the Department for Employment and Learning
HARBOURS Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Bangor (Harbour Area) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 2nd June 2003. Harbour area 2 1 The area at Bangor Harbour within which North Down Borough Council and its officers may exercise their powers shall be that area shown enclosed by a continuous red line on the map and the area within which any dues for the time being leviable may be charged shall be that area within the Harbour shown shaded yellow on the map. 2 In this Article “the map” means the map marked “Bangor (Harbour Area) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003” which has been signed and sealed with reference to this Order and deposited at the office of the Department for Regional Development, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast, BT2 8GB. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on 24th April 2003. R. McMinnis A Senior Officer of the Department for Regional Development
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendments to the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Environment (Designation of Relevant Directives) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st May 2003. 2 The following Directives are designated as relevant directives for the purposes of paragraph 20(2)(d) of Schedule 1 to the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 – a Council Directive 1999/13/ EC on the limitation of emissions of volatile organic compounds due to the use of organic solvents in certain activities and installations ; b Council Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles ; c Council Directive 2000/76/EC on the incineration of waste ; and d Council Directive 2001/80/EC on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 2nd April 2003. Judena Goldring A senior officer of the Department of the Environment
FIRE SERVICES Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Revocation 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 15th April 2003. Interpretation 2 1 In these regulations – “ the Order ” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 ; “ the Regulations ” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 . 2 The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Revocation and replacement of provisions for the Advisory Committee for the purposes of the Order 3 1 Regulation 37 of the Regulations shall be revoked and replaced as follows. 2 After Article 22 of the Order there shall be inserted – Advisory Committee 22A 1 The Department shall appoint a Committee to provide it with advice – a on the exercise of its powers under Articles 8, 9 and 10; b on the exercise of any power under this Order to make regulations, and on such matters concerning the Department’s functions under this Order as the Department may from time to time direct. 2 The Chairman and other members of the Committee shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of their appointment. 3 The Department shall pay to the members of the Committee such remuneration (if any) and such allowances as it may determine. . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 31st March 2003. Judena Goldring Senior Officer of the Department of the Environment
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the State Pension Credit (2002 Act) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003. 2 In this Order, references to sections and Schedules are, unless the context otherwise requires, to sections of, and Schedules to, the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002. Appointed day 2 The day appointed for the coming into operation of – a section 11 (in so far as it is not already in operation) in relation to paragraphs 1 to 7, 10 and 12 of Schedule 1; and b section 20 and Schedule 3 to the extent that they repeal the provisions specified in the Schedule to this Order, is 7th April 2003 Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 2nd April 2003. John Hunter Senior Officer of the Department for Social Development
EMPLOYMENT Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Application of Article 112B to Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 8th April 2003. 2 In these Regulations – “adoption from overseas” means the adoption of a child who enters Northern Ireland from outside the United Kingdom in connection with or for the purposes of adoption which does not involve the placement of the child for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.”; “ the Order ” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996. Application of Article 112B of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 to adoptions from overseas 2 Article 112B of the Order shall have effect in relation to adoptions from overseas with the modifications of the provisions specified in the first column of the Schedule that are set out opposite those provisions in the second column of that Schedule. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 7th April 2003. R. B. Gamble A senior officer of the Department for Employment and Learning
HARBOURS Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Groomsport (Harbour Area) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 2nd June 2003. Harbour area 2 1 The area at Groomsport Harbour within which North Down Borough Council and its officers may exercise their powers shall be that area shown enclosed by a continuous red line on the map and the area within which any dues for the time being leviable may be charged shall be that area within the Harbour shown shaded yellow on the map. 2 In this Article “the map” means the map marked “Groomsport (Harbour Area) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003” which has been signed and sealed with reference to this Order and deposited at the office of the Department for Regional Development, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast, BT2 8GB. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on 24th April 2003. R. McMinnis A Senior Officer of the Department for Regional Development