SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 The Fair Employment Agency for Northern Ireland
Incorporation and status
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F2The Commission shall continue in existence as a body corporate.
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The F3Commission is not an emanation of the Crown, and shall not act or be treated as the servant or agent of the Crown.
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Accordingly—
a
neither the F3Commission nor any of its members or members of its staff as such is entitled to any status, immunity, privilege or exemption enjoyed by the Crown;
b
the members of the F3Commission and members of its staff as such are not civil servants; and
c
the F3Commission property is not property of, or held on behalf of, the Crown.
Tenure of office of members
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A person shall hold and vacate his office as chairman or other member of the F4Commission in accordance with terms of his appointment:
Provided that no such appointment shall be for a period exceeding five years in the case of the chairman and three years in the case of another member.
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A person may at any time resign office as chairman or other member of the F4Commission by notice to the Department.
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Past service as chairman or other member of the F4Commission is no bar to re-appointment.
Remuneration of members
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The Department may pay, or make such payments towards the provision of, such remuneration, allowances (including allowances for expenses), pensions or gratuities to or in respect of the chairman and other members of the F5Commission, or any of them, as, with the approval of the Department of Finance, it may determine.
Staff
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The F6Commission may with the approval of the Department and the Department of Finance as to numbers and as to remuneration and other terms and conditions of employment—
a
employ such officers and servants as the F6Commission considers necessary;
b
employ the services of such other persons as the F6Commission considers expedient for any particular purpose.
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The F6Commission may, in the case of such persons employed by it as may be determined by the F6Commission with the approval of the Department and the Department of Finance, pay to or in respect of them such allowances (including allowances for expenses), pensions or gratuities, or provide and maintain for them such pension schemes (whether contributory or not), or contributory or other pension arrangements, as may be so determined.
Proceedings
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Instruments
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A document purporting to be duly executed under the common seal of the F10Commission shall be received in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be so executed.
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Any contract or instrument which, if entered into or executed by an individual, would not require to be under seal may be entered into or executed on behalf of the F11Commission by any person generally or specially authorised by the F11Commission to act for that purpose, and any document purporting to be such a contract or instrument shall be deemed to be such a contract or instrument until the contrary is proved.
Discharge of functions
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Anything done by or in relation to a member or group of members in or in connection with the discharge of functions he or they are authorised to discharge under sub-paragraph (1) shall have the same effect as if done by or in relation to the F12Commission.
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A group of members authorised to discharge any functions under sub-paragraph (1) may regulate their own procedure and business, including their quorum.
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The validity of any proceedings of a member or group of members so authorised shall not be affected by any defect in his appointment or any of their appointments; and the validity of the proceedings of any such group shall not be affected by any vacancy in their number.
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The chairman may select himself, as the member, or as one of the group of members, mentioned in this paragraph.
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The F14Commission may appoint as assessors, to assist—
a
the F14Commission; or
b
any member or group of members authorised to discharge functions under paragraph 10,
Expenses and accounts
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All expenditure incurred by or on behalf of the F16Commission—
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within the terms of any general authorisation in writing given by the Department and the Department of Finance; or
b
with the approval of those Departments;’
may be defrayed as expenses of the Department.
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The F17Commission shall keep proper accounts in such form as may be approved by the Department, and proper records in relation to the accounts, and shall prepare in respect of F18each financial year a statement of accounts in such form as the Department, with the approval of the Department of Finance may direct.
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The F17Commission shall, at such time in each year as the Department may direct, transmit to the Department and the Comptroller and Auditor-General copies, certified by the auditors, of the annual statement of accounts.
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The Comptroller and Auditor-General—
a
shall examine a copy of each annual statement of accounts of the F17Commission;
b
may, in connection with such examination, examine any accounts kept by the F17Commission and any records relating to the accounts; and
c
shall make a report on the copy of each annual statement of accounts and send the report to the Department.
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Subject to sub-paragraph (6), a copy of every annual statement of accounts of the F17Commission and a copy of the Comptroller and Auditor-General’s report thereon shall be laid by the head of the Department before the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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F19If no head of the Department stands appointed for the time being the copies mentioned in sub-paragraph (5) shall, instead, be sent by the Department to the Secretary of State and laid by him before Parliament.
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In this paragraph “the Comptroller and Auditor-General” means the Comptroller and Auditor-General for Northern Ireland.
Annual report
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The annual report shall include a general survey of developments, during the period to which it relates, in respect of matters falling within the scope of the F20Commission’s functions.
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Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the annual report shall be made to the head of the Department and shall be laid by him before the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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F23If no head of the Department stands appointed for the time being the annual report shall, instead, be made to the Secretary of State and laid by him before Parliament.
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The Department, or where sub-paragraph (4) applies the Secretary of State, shall cause the annual report to be published.