In the exercise of the Board's functions, the Board or any member of the Board acting on its behalf, must have regard to the Report of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (ISBN 978-1-908820-91-4), being the report of the Inquiry held under the Inquiry into Historical Institutional Abuse Act (Northern Ireland) 2013; but this duty does not apply in so far as any of the Board's functions depart from the recommendations made in the Report.

The Board, or any member of the Board acting on its behalf, may do anything which the Board or member considers to be appropriate for facilitating, or to be incidental or conducive to, the exercise of its functions.

The power under sub-paragraph (2) does not include a power to borrow money.