Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Race Relations (1997 Order) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997.
Appointed days
2.—(1) The day appointed for the coming into operation of Article 1 of the Order, in so far as it is not already in operation, shall be 30th June 1997.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3) the day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions of the Order specified in column (1) of the Schedule shall be 30th June 1997.
(3) Where the extent to which any provision of the Order shall come into operation is specified in column (1) of the Schedule, paragraph (2) shall have effect in relation to that provision only to the extent so specified.
(4) The day appointed for the coming into operation of the remaining provisions of the Order and those provisions specified in column (1) of the Schedule so far as they have not been brought into operation by paragraph (2) shall be 4th August 1997.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on
L.S.
G. I. O'Doherty
Assistant Secretary
6th June 1997.