单词 | Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission |
释义 | Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission under Section 69 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, the Commission has the following duties: to keep under review the adequacy and effectiveness in Northern Ireland of law and practice relating to the protection of HUMAN RIGHTS: to advise the Secretary of State and the Executive Com- mittee of the Northern Ireland Assembly of legislative and other measures that ought to be taken to protect human rights; to advise the Northern Ireland Assembly whether a Bill is compatible with human rights; to promote understanding and awareness of the importance of human rights in Northern Ireland; to provide advice to the Secretary of State on the scope for defining, in Westminster legislation, rights supplementary to those in the EUROPEAN CONVEN- TION ON HUMAN RIGHTS; to make to the Secretary of State within two years such recommendations as it thinks fit for improving the Com- mission's effectiveness; to do all that it can to ensure the establish- ment of a Joint Committee with the (proposed) Human Rights Com- mission in the Republic of Ireland. The Commission has the power: to give assistance to individuals who apply to it for help in relation to proceedings involving law or practice concerning the protection of human rights; to bring proceedings involving law or practice con- cerning the protection of human rights; to conduct such investiga- tions as it considers necessary or expedient for the purpose of exer- cising its other functions and to publish its advice and the outcome of its research and investigations. |
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