Northern Ireland
Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016
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This Act renames several Northern Ireland departments, dissolves three departments, and lets the First Minister and deputy First Minister appoint the commencement date by order.
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This Act renames several Northern Ireland departments, dissolves three departments, and lets the First Minister and deputy First Minister appoint the commencement date by order.
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This Act lets the Ministry of Agriculture control or ban musk rats in Northern Ireland, license limited import/keeping, and enforce compliance with notice, inspection, and destruction powers.
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This document notes that the Development Loans (Agriculture and Fisheries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 was repealed.
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The Act lets the Ministry and some local bodies fund, acquire, improve, and dispose of land and services for development and bringing derelict land back into use.
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The Ministry may provide and arrange training and rehabilitation facilities for disabled persons, and regulations and orders must be laid before each House of Parliament.
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The Ministry can declare infected areas and issue orders to prevent, control, and eradicate fish disease. People must follow infected waters and risk of infection orders, and some fishery owners can get a free report or make representations.
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This Act changes the dog-destruction powers in Northern Ireland: courts must order destruction in specified attack/livestock cases unless exceptional mitigating factors exist, and may attach control measures such as muzzling, confinement, exclusion, or neutering.
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This Act changes dog licensing and control rules, including microchipping requirements, licence fees, control conditions, offences, penalties, and council and court powers.
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The Department must make regulations giving employees who are victims of domestic abuse at least 10 days of paid safe leave each leave year, with rules on eligibility, notice, pay, and return to work.
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This provision defines the domestic abuse offence, sets sentencing and procedural rules, and gives the Department of Justice powers to make related regulations and guidance.
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This provision sets out who may apply for domestic maintenance orders, what the court may order, key limits on payments, notice duties when orders end, and some time limits for child-related orders.
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The Act gives legal effect in Northern Ireland to agreed double-taxation relief arrangements, including special Stamp Duty treatment for instruments stamped in Northern Ireland or the Irish Free State.
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This provision sets out the Drainage Council’s and Ministry’s roles, the Ministry’s powers over drainage works and land, and the environmental assessment steps needed before drainage schemes can be confirmed.
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The governing body must keep proper accounts, prepare an annual statement, have the accounts audited, and pay the audit costs. The Ministry of Finance may direct the accounting form and can require submission and inspection of audited accounts.
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This segment sets rules for school governance, pupil discipline, admissions, baseline assessment, pre-school education, and teacher registration in Northern Ireland.
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This Act amends the Education Acts (Northern Ireland) 1923 and 1925, and it has been repealed subject to a saving for section 10 about repayment to the Department of Education in one specific case.
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This Act reforming education law in Northern Ireland has been repealed, but section 106 is saved to the extent it requires repayment to the Department of Education if a voluntary school stops being carried on as such.
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This Act creates the Education Authority and gives it duties, powers, and administrative functions.
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The Act confirms certain educational endowments schemes, and some schemes may later be altered by the Ministry of Finance if specified applications are made and the changes do not conflict with the 1885 Act.