2024 No. 122

Period Products (free Provision)

The Period Products (Department for Infrastructure Specified Public Service Bodies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

Laid before the Assembly in draft

Made

Coming into operation

The Department for Infrastructure1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(1), (7)(a) and (b) and (13) of the Period Products (Free Provision) Act (Northern Ireland) 20222 and after consultation in accordance with section 2(8) of that Act.

Citation and commencementI11

These Regulations may be cited as the Period Products (Department for Infrastructure Specified Public Service Bodies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 and come into operation on 29th May 2024.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I1

Reg. 1 in operation at 29.5.2024, see reg. 1

InterpretationI22

In these Regulations—

  • “administrative accommodation” means accommodation leased or owned by a specified public service body for the purpose of effecting its statutory functions;

  • “NITHC” means the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company as established under the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 19673;

  • “NIW” means the Northern Ireland Water Group established under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006, and appointed by the Department as a water and sewerage undertaker under the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 20064;

  • “service users” means persons who are in the premises of a specified public service body to make use of the services to the public provided there by the specified public service body;

  • “specified public service body” means the bodies listed in the Schedule;

  • “staff” means employees or agency workers in the premises of a specified public service body;

  • “the Act” means the Period Products (Free Provision) Act (Northern Ireland) 20225; and

  • “visitors” means persons with legitimate reason for being in the premises of a specified public service body, such as attending meetings or events or providing a function or service.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I2

Reg. 2 in operation at 29.5.2024, see reg. 1

Specified public service bodiesI33

The bodies listed in this Schedule are specified as public service bodies to which the duty in section 2(1) of the Act applies.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I3

Reg. 3 in operation at 29.5.2024, see reg. 1

Description of premises and personsI44

For the purposes of section 2(3) of this Act—

a

the descriptions of premises listed in column 2 of the Table below are to be treated as being premises of the public service body listed in column 1; and

b

the description of persons listed in column 3 of the Table below are to be treated as being in the premises of the specified public body listed at column 1.

Table

Column 1 – Specified Public Service Body

Column 2 – Descriptions of Premises

Column 3 – Descriptions of persons in premises

(a) (i)

NITHC

All staffed buildings used for the delivery of services to the public and which are normally open to the public

(i) service users

(ii) staff

(iii) visitors

(a) (ii)

NITHC

NITHC administrative accommodation

(i) staff

(ii) visitors

(b) (i)

NIW

All staffed buildings used for the delivery of services to the public and which are normally open to the public

(i) service users

(ii) staff

(iii) visitors

(b) (ii)

NIW

NIW administrative accommodation

(i) staff

(ii) visitors

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I4

Reg. 4 in operation at 29.5.2024, see reg. 1

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Infrastructure on 28th May 2024

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I5SCHEDULESpecified Public Service Bodies

Regulation 3

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I5

Sch. in operation at 29.5.2024, see reg. 1

I5NITHC6; and

I5NIW7

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made under section 2(1) of the Period Products (Free Provision) Act (Northern Ireland) 20228. They specify the public service bodies within the functions of the Department for Infrastructure that are subject to the duty to ensure that period products are obtainable free of charge by persons on the premises who need to use them. They provide, for the purposes of the Act, descriptions of the premises to be treated as premises of a specified public service body and of persons to be treated as in those premises.