Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 401) by replacing the Schedule to that Order. The amendments to the Schedule are the inclusion of the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People and the Secretary of State for Transport; the inclusion of the Chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission in substitution for the Chief Executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission; the deletion of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and Auditors appointed by that Department; and amendments to the description of matters for which the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the local government auditors appointed by the Department of the Environment from the staff of the Northern Ireland Audit Office, the Northern Ireland Authority for Energy Regulation, Northern Ireland District Councils, the Northern Ireland Social Care Council, the Office of Communications and the Office of Fair Trading are prescribed.

The references to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise and Commissioners of the Inland Revenue have been amended to read ‘Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs’, the reference to the Health and Social Services Board Registration and Inspection Units has been amended to read ‘Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority’, and the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority has been amended to read ‘Pensions Regulator’.