Schedule 3: Protection for certain rights, safeguards etc in Belfast Agreement Section 78E - Collaborative working
This section states that the NIHRC and ECNI can arrange for any of their functions under the above sections to be carried out either by acting jointly or by one of them acting on behalf of the other.
	Paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 of this Act adds the new sections 78A to 78E to the list of reserved matters contained in paragraph 42 of Schedule 3 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, meaning that the Northern Ireland Assembly would only be able to legislate for the matters to which those sections relate with the consent of the Secretary of State.