Part 11: Appropriate authorities and cross-border procurement Section 112: Northern Ireland department: restrictions on the exercise of powers
This section places restrictions on Northern Ireland departments when exercising powers under this legislation.
	Subsection (1) sets out that the powers granted to a Northern Ireland department under the legislation only apply to certain contracting authorities and procurement under a transferred Northern Ireland procurement arrangement (as defined at section 114). The contracting authorities in relation to which the powers may be exercised are transferred Northern Ireland authorities and public undertakings or private utilities which are not transferred Northern Ireland authorities but are to be treated as such (see subsection (2)).
	Subsection (2) determines that an authority is a transferred Northern Ireland authority if its functions are exercisable only in or as regards Northern Ireland and are wholly or mainly functions that do not relate to reserved or excepted matters within the meaning given by the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
	Subsection (3) establishes that a public undertaking or private utility is to be treated as a transferred Northern Ireland authority where it operates only in or as regards Northern Ireland and its activities are wholly or mainly activities that do not relate to excepted or reserved matters.
	Subsection (4) sets out that any reference to a transferred Northern Ireland authority elsewhere in the legislation also includes the authorities which this section states should be treated as such.