Annual reportN.I.
5(1)The Commission must, as soon as possible after the end of each financial year, prepare a report on how it has exercised its functions during the financial year.
(2)Each annual report must include information about the persons who have applied to be, and the persons who have been, selected to be appointed or recommended for appointment by the Commission during the financial year to which it relates.
(3)The information to be included about any persons in an annual report must include information about their gender, age, ethnic origins and community background and the part of Northern Ireland (if any) with which they regard themselves as being most closely associated.
(4)But an annual report must not identify any person or include information from which the identity of any person could be readily ascertained.
(5)The Commission must send a copy of each annual report to the [F1Lord Chancellor].
(6)The [F2Lord Chancellor must lay before [F3the Northern Ireland Assembly]] a copy of each annual report received by [F4him] under sub-paragraph (5).
(7)After a copy of a report has been laid before [F5the Northern Ireland Assembly], the Commission must arrange for it to be published.
[F6(7A)Section 41(3) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies for the purposes of sub-paragraph (6) in relation to the laying of a copy of an annual report as it applies in relation to the laying of a statutory document under an enactment.]
(8)In this paragraph “financial year” means—
(a)the period beginning with the day on which section 3 comes into force and ending with the first 31st March which falls at least six months after that day, and
(b)each subsequent period of twelve months beginning with 1st April.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 2 para. 5(5) substituted (15.6.2005) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 1, 19(1), Sch. 1 para. 5(9); S.R. 2005/282, art. 3
F2Words in Sch. 2 para. 5(6) substituted (15.6.2005) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 1, 19(1), Sch. 1 para. 5(10); S.R. 2005/282, art. 3
F3Words in Sch. 2 para. 5(6) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 18 para. 67(7)(a) (with arts. 28-31)
F4Words in Sch. 2 para. 5(6) substituted (15.6.2005) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 1, 19(1), Sch. 1 para. 5(10); S.R. 2005/282, art. 3
F5Words in Sch. 2 para. 5(7) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 18 para. 67(7)(b) (with arts. 28-31)
F6Sch. 2 para. 5(7A) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 18 para. 67(7)(c) (with arts. 28-31)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 2 para. 5(5): transfer of functions (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(3) (with arts. 15(6), 28-31)
C2Sch. 2 para. 5(6): transfer of functions (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(2) (with arts. 15(6), 28-31)