Schedules Schedule 1: The Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board
Paragraph 1 sets out that the Redress Board is a body corporate and paragraph 2 means that the Executive Office must ensure the establishment of the Board is advertised in the Belfast Gazette.
	Paragraph 3 requires The Executive Office to designate a department to exercise the administrative functions of the Board.
	Paragraph 4 means that the Board or any member acting on its behalf must have regard to the Inquiry Report in exercising its functions. This duty does not apply to any functions which differ from recommendations made in the Inquiry Report.
	Paragraph 5 sets out arrangements for the appointment and remuneration of staff. The Lord Chief Justice will appoint a President of the Board and, subject to the approval of the Executive Office as to numbers, other judicial members of the Board as the President considers necessary. The Executive Office will appoint other members of the Board from health or social care professions as it considers necessary. The Department will be responsible for remunerating and reimbursing members of the Board for expenses reasonably incurred.
	Paragraph 6 requires the Department to provide administrative staff and this must include a secretary to the Board. The Department must also provide office accommodation and equipment.
	Paragraph 7 allows the President of the Board to delegate any of his functions to another judicial member of the Board. The Board may also establish committees to which it may delegate functions or to provide advice to the Board or President.
	Paragraph 8 means that the President’s signature or that of his authorised staff authenticates or forms the seal of the Board.
	Paragraph 9 sets out that any document signed by the Board or on behalf of the Board (i.e. with the ‘Seal’ of the Board will be permissible as documentary evidence in a court of Law/Judicial or administrative proceedings.
	Paragraph 10 provides that the Department will receive funds from The Executive Office through the relevant standard procedures. Annual grants to the department will form part of The Executive Office’s budget and the department will be invited to submit a budget bid to the Office for each financial year.
	Paragraph 11 means the Board is required to report back annually to The Executive Office on the exercise of its functions and on the use of financial resources at its disposal. The Executive Office must ensure a copy of each annual report is laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly.
	Paragraph 12 adds the Board to the list of bodies in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act (1975), so ensuring that any judicial member (once in post) cannot also hold membership of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
	Paragraph 13 means the Board is added to the list of public authorities in Part 7 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. It will, therefore, fall within the scope of the Act, but only in relation to its administrative functions.
	Paragraph 14 adds the Board to the list of tribunals whose administrative functions are subject to investigation by the Public Services Ombudsman in Northern Ireland. The principal purpose of the Ombudsman is to investigate alleged maladministration in government and public bodies.